Google has been working on machine learning for years deep inside its R&D labs, and some of the advances it’s made have found their way into products such as Google Photos. On Monday, it launched a new, open-source tool to help share what it’s learned.

TensorFlow is a machine-learning system that can run on anything from a single smartphone to thousands of data-center computers. It builds upon DistBelief, the deep-learning infrastructure Google developed back in 2011, but takes that first generation several steps further.

“TensorFlow is faster, smarter and more flexible than our old system, so it can be adapted much more easily to new products and research,” wrote Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a blog post announcing the news.

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