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OpenAI (https://openai.com/). OpenAI's research vision is at a similarly ambitious scale as DeepMind. They're also relatively more open in their research, and known to release papers, code, and models quickly. Currently, they are not as big though, more like how DeepMind was immediately after publishing their first Atari work in 2013. Give them time, and I expect them to become a very formidable opponent to DeepMind.

As a bonus, OpenAI is a nonprofit that always allows publishing. They also have some of the top names in DL: Ian Goodfellow, Ilya Sutskever and Zaremba. In DRL (deepmind's arena), they have Abbeel and Schulman, both absolute houses.

The Google Brain (g.co/brain) team has people in SF. We are part of the same company as DeepMind so maybe this doesn't quite answer your question. ^_^

We are mostly in SF and Mountain View, but we also have people in a few other locations. Right now, SF and Mountain View are the largest.

Disclosure: I work for Google on the Brain team.

OpenAI? (It's a non-profit, not sure if you personally find that truly disqualifying)