Google announced major news yesterday by open sourcing TensorFlow, Google’s very own machine learning system. Matt Cutts of Google said it was probably the biggest announcement in technology news that day – he was right.

In the Google+ post by Matt Cutts, Matt said this is in a sense Google revealing their own “secret sauce.” Google has used machine learning for years and years, even before RankBrain for query interpretation, voice recognition, image search and rankings. Matt Cutts said by Google releasing this, it will benefit the “entire world.”

Matt listed three reasons he is excited about this, the third was:

The other two:

Of course, SEOs trying to reverse engineer Google’s algorithm with accessing the code base for TensorFlow is most likely a waste of time. So what ‘secret sauce’ was revealed?

Here is a video that explains better what this is all about:

Also the Google Research blog has more of a technical overview.

Forum discussion at Google+.