It seems more prevalent now than it used to be, that frameworks/libraries are being used as weapons in a sort of mindshare war between the world's megacorps. Or perhaps I'm misremembering history. And I don't mean just AI; just look at Angular (Google) vs. React (Facebook).<p>It's a bit of a double edged sword. As developers this war gives us free access to well funded and heavily developed tools. The world has been fundamentally changed by their availability. But at the same time we need to understand that the primary reason they exist is to lock developers into a particular vendor. It's most transparent with Google's TensorFlow, where they were obvious about their intentions to offer TensorFlow services on their cloud platform.<p>This article more than most exemplifies their desperate attempts. For now it seems to remain mostly that, desperate attempts, with the tools remaining more-or-less platform agnostic. But I foresee a grim future where our best libraries and tools are tied inextricably to a commercial ecosystem.