[rawnlq]

Due to the language barrier, there is a lot of interesting work that we will never "see".

For example I was randomly looking through text recognition competition results and found out Tencent has an AI lab that took first place: http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=1&com=evaluation&task=4.

But I was unable to find any information about them. They have github repos with thousands of stars but the community is entirely in chinese: https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn/issues

[idibidiart]

I believe TenCent AI Lab is based in Silicon Valley.

[kercker]

According to its recruit page (http://ai.tencent.com/ailab/recruit.html), they have researchers in US and Shenzhen, China.