Behind nearly all the interesting new mobile web business models lies a massive artificial intelligence, or deep learning, engine. Some of these are being developed in great secrecy to support the next wave of services from Google, Facebook or Microsoft. Others, like IBM’s Watson and AlchemyAPI, are open to a broad developer community, while the next stage will be ‘as a service’ platforms ‘ a possible business for some operators, like AT&T, which have developed advanced analytics systems to examine their own networks and subscriber behavior. But don’t be fooled by the fact that all these names are American. As in most areas of advanced technology, Chinese web giants and research institutions are matching their western counterparts dollar for dollar…