# Why is Python, not Julia, still used for most state-of-the-art AI research?

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**Tags:** knet, flux, machine-learning, mlj, sciml\
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-python-not-julia-still-used-for-most-state-of-the-art-ai-research/45896 "2020-09-01T13:49:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Palli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/palli/32/3380_2.png) [@Palli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Palli)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-python-not-julia-still-used-for-most-state-of-the-art-ai-research/45896/28 "2020-09-01T22:05:07Z")

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From your link, some research using Julia (and I also edited my top post, with state-of-the-art research from one of the main Knet/Julia guy):

> [@Where does Julia provide the biggest benefits over other ML frameworks for research?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-does-julia-provide-the-biggest-benefits-over-other-ml-frameworks-for-research/28481/4):
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> Personal Examples:  
> Although this paper I’m going to show you isn’t cutting edge amazing machine learning I did do all of the work for it in Julia: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.11129.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.11129.pdf)

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