Re:Go master Cho wins best-of-three series against Japan-mad...
by sams99 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:03PM
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"Zen is commercial software sold to people with a normal PC"
Note, it looks like only version 6 is out:
https://book.mynavi.jp/ec/products/detail/id=62646
It appears that DeepZen would be a new version that is not quite yet released to the public.
Zen is commercial software sold to people with a normal PC, so obviously reaching AlphaGo performance on AlphaGo hardware does their customers no good either.
It's for sure stronger than Darkforest. Some free PC programs like Leela have reached Darkforest levels on normal PC hardware (Darkforest used 44 NVIDIA Tesla cards, Leela uses a single normal "gaming" GPU), and Zen is several stones stronger than Leela.