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TLDR: No, they are not officially planning to deprecate TF. Yes they are still actively developing TF. No, that doesn't fill me with much confidence, coming from Google, especially while they are also developing Jax.
Just searched this again and kudos, I can't find anything but official Google statements that they are continuing support for TF in the foreseeable future. For a while people were doom-saying so confidently that Google is completely dropping TF for JAX that I kinda just took it on blind faith.
All that said: #TF REALLY COULD GET DEPRECATED SOON Despite their insistence that this won't happen, Google is known for deprecating strong projects with bright futures with little/no warning. Do not take the size of Tensorflow as evidence that the Goog is going to stand by it. Especially when they are actively developing a competing product in the niche.
fwiw, it is also the current fad in tech to make high level decisions abruptly without proper warning to engineers. It really does mean almost nothing when a company's engineers are enthusiastically continuing their support of a product.
TF is just not on solid ground.
Also, JAX is not official a google product, but rather a research product. So on paper, Tensorflow is google's official framework for deep learning.
What obligation does Google have to not deprecate tf? Google abandons projects all the time.
Actually, another perspective to put is that TensorFlow's deployment is something JAX doesn't have (not that I know of) and cutting it would be idiotic for google, since they eliminated their own tool in an ongoing AI revolution. TensorFlow is their current tool and if they are going to abandon it, they will need a strong replacement for it's deployability which does guarantee a few years (since the JAX team doesn't seem to be quite focused in deployment). IIRC JAX deploys by Tensorflow rn.