about the authors

François Chollet has been working with deep learning since it started getting traction in academia in 2012. François is the author of Keras, one of the most popular libraries for deep learning. Keras is used in university classrooms; at companies like Google, Netflix, and Spot­ify; and in scientific organizations like CERN and NASA. Francois is the co-founder of the Ndea research lab for frontier AI systems and created the ARC-AGI challenge for measuring machine intelligence.

Matthew Watson has been working on machine learning across Google since 2018, including the Gemini model and Google’s open source deep learning ecosystem. He is a core maintainer of Keras, focusing on Keras’s tools for natural language processing. He completed his master’s in computer science at Stanford University, researching procedural modeling techniques at the Stanford Graphics Lab.