Kind of. Deep learning is about more than matrix operations, and matrix operations are useful for applications other than deep learning, so I believe the distinction is worth making. Just like with programming languages, which may all be used for the same application, it&#x27;s all about what you make easy to do, and what you make difficult. I&#x27;m saying the TF&#x27;s intention is to make many things beyond DL easy, although people think of it chiefly as a DL library atm.