# How does TensorFlow work, and what is its purpose?

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## Short answer

TensorFlow is an open-source machine-learning framework created by Google that lets developers define computations as data-flow graphs of tensor operations and then execute those graphs efficiently on CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs.

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