AI outside of China：

• DeepMind (Acquired by Google) -- RL, DQN, transfer learning; AlphaGO, Health;
• MetaMind (Acquired by Salesforce) -- Muti-task learning, dynamic memory network;
• Numenta -- Neocortex, Biological learning; Anomaly detection
• Geometric Intelligence -- Fast deep learning;
• MobileEye -- Vehicle automation
• wit.ai (Acquired by Facebook) -- Chat bot platform
• Visionlabs -- Face
• SayMosaic -- Chat bot
• Alpaca.ai -- Quantitative analysis
• Flatiron -- Cancer
• Enlitic -- Medicine
• ZestFinance -- Finance Risk

AI in China：

• XunFei (iflytec) -- Speech
• 4Paradigm -- Transfer learning, AI platform
• Face++ -- Face, Image
• Horizon-Robotics -- DPU
• SenseTime -- CV
• YituTech -- CV
• Deepglint -- Security
• Peak-labs -- Semantic search, Text understanding
• TupuTech -- Image, Video
• TuSimple -- Image
• ReadSense -- Face, Hand
• Aiiage -- Robots
• EmotiBot -- Emotional Bot
• Deephi -- DPU
• Howareyou-robot -- Chat bot, Child care
• CreditX -- Finance risk
• Faceall -- Face

AI Branches of Big Companies

• Google -- Brain, Hinton, TensorFlow, Google Now
• MS Research -- Cortana, Face, Translation
• FB AI Lab -- Memory network; Text understanding, Chat bot
• Baidu IDL -- Speech, Image, Vehicle automation
• IBM Watson -- Knowledge graph, QA
• Tencent youtu -- Image
• Amazon -- Echo, Voice
• Apple -- Siri, Emotient
• OpenAI -- sponsored by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk
• Nvidia -- GPU
• Intel -- Chipset

Data Prediction/Analysis/Platform outside of China

• Palantir -- Analytics
• Everstring -- Prediction
• Nara.me -- Recommendation
• Gosynapsify
• Recommind

Data Prediction/Analysis/Platform in China

• Growingio -- BI
• Talkingdata -- App monitoring SDK
• Mininglamp (MingLue)
• Zamplus (JingZan) -- DSP, DMP, Data exchange
• Datagrand (DaGuan) -- Search, Recommendation, text mining
• Bosonnlp

Other Preferences

• CV industry: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/vision.html
• AI startups: https://github.com/lipiji/AIStartups
• AI investment: https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/25/investing-in-artificial-intelligence/