#Tencent New Seattle Lab Shows It's Serious about Mastering #AI: Yu Dong, expert on speech recognition and deep learning, will oversee the operation. Baidu is already heavily invested in AI. Alibaba has begun publishing some AI research. Chinese startups are building on top of advances in AI • r/Sino

Tencent's New Lab Shows It's Serious about Mastering AI Tencent has established an AI lab in Seattle, and the company is building a very serious research team back in China. One of China's biggest tech companies, Tencent, is establishing an AI research lab in Seattle, demonstrating a growing determination to master a technology that looks set to define the future of many industries. Tencent is already one of China's dominant tech companies. It operates the hugely successful mobile chat app WeChat--which boasts over 889 million active users in China--along with lots of other social tools, e-commerce services, games, and the like. Based in Shenzhen, a manufacturing hub in the southeastern part of the country, Tencent has the potential to become a key player in the development and commercialization of artificial intelligence.