MIT also claims to be one-upping Google's popular AI framework, TensorFlow, which helps users create algorithms "without doing much math" and relies on a Python language API.

MIT developers recently unveiled a new programming language, Finch. What problems does it seek to solve and how useful is it for you?

Not necessarily for the data-science and machine-learning communities built around Python extensions like NumPy and SciPy, but as a general programming language.

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