I'm not sure if it's a deep learning framework. Perhaps they are in some ways complementary http://hunch.net/?p=2875548. Who knows, maybe CNTK is one big reduction.
Project Philly is supposed to be a GPU platform in Azure that will enable us to run 100's of GPUs. Primary focus is Deep Learning and will be using Nvidia GPUs. CNTK, I think will be the default way to harness the Computing power.
I think that is all that has been revealed. I suspect that this will be announced within a couple of months and this cntk release has something to do with that
My favourite and perhaps a lot of people’s favourite feature in Keras in the Graph API. It is immensely powerful, yet done in such a simple and elegant way. Honestly, everytime I use it or think about it, it makes me wonder how you came up with the concept and executed it that well :)
BTW, we are looking for excellent API UX designers. Interested?