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@@ -24,14 +24,10 @@ for machine learning. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of
 researchers push the state-of-the-art in ML and developers easily build and
 deploy ML-powered applications.
 
-TensorFlow was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the
-Google Brain team within Google's Machine Intelligence Research organization to
-conduct machine learning and deep neural networks research. The system is
-general enough to be applicable in a wide variety of other domains, as well.
+TensorFlow was originally developed by researchers and engineers working within the Machine Intelligence team at Google Brain to conduct research in machine learning and neural networks.  However, the framework is versatile enough to be used in other areas as well.
 
 TensorFlow provides stable [Python](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python)
-and [C++](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/cc) APIs, as well as
-non-guaranteed backward compatible API for
+and [C++](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/cc) APIs, as well as a non-guaranteed backward compatible API for
 [other languages](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs).
 
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