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Institutions

DeepMind

Founded by Denis Hassibis in Britain in 2010, bought by Google in 2014.

Mission:

300 researchers, based in kings cross London

Reinforcement learning, progress to a goal

Accomplishments

OpenAI

2015 Originally founded by Elon Musk, dedicated to making state-of-the-art AI tools available as open-source.

2018 Elon Musk withdrew due to disagreement with changes made in the strategic direction.

2019 Microsoft stepped in as major investor.

founded by Elon Musk
working on a machine-brain interface, with electronic implants directly into the brain

Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA)

University of Montreal
Yoshua Bengio, Director
Supported by Facebook, IBM, Google

Kaggle

A competition platform including datasets and tools.
https://www.kaggle.com

Others

drive.ai
deeplearning.ai
Coursera
Stanford University
Baidu, Inc.
Google Brain (Deep Learning) project. Eclipsed and absorbed by DeepMind when it was acquired in 2014
Facebook AI Research (FAIR)

Note

Microsoft number of employees in AI research:
in 2016: ~5,000
in 2017: ~8,000

Conferences

6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2018)

April 30 - May 3, 2018
Vancouver, CA