Philosophy
We are driven by intense curiosities.As an organization, we maintain a portfolio of research projects driven by AI new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work.
Flexible, free research environment, challenging research projects
We strive to create an environment conducive to free research at all levels of risk.Exploring the application of the latest technologies in many practical fields.
In recent years, AI has both expanded as a field and grown in its importance to society. Similarly, the research conducted at XploreAlpha has broadened dramatically, becoming more important than ever to our mission. As such, our research philosophy has become more expansive than ever, and now incorporates a substantial amount of open-ended, long-term research driven more by scientific curiosity,we will use these results of research to our current product needs.
We believe successful industry research requires managing a portfolio of projects with time horizons, levels of risk and goals appropriate for the organization. Our approach to research has always been flexible, but there are two reasons that our research philosophy today adds more fundamental, or “pure basic,” research than it has previously.
First, We will focus on AI research, especially the application of AI to medicine that involve more technical risk than ever before.
Second,We focus on AI application research, especially in human-computer interaction(HCI) and Electronic commerce.We will increase our efforts in basic medical AI research, especially in the areas of diabetes, breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
Third, machine learning (ML) ,Search engine and AI agent are transformative technologies that touches everything we do as a company. Therefore, fundamental advances in these technologies are likely to produce value across the organization,so the developed of these research must have close connection to a specific application or product.
We also think these technologies are not unique in this regard; the same argument applies to other technologies outside of these technologies that are critical to the company.
Our research spans three main dimensions
Our goal is to create a research environment rich in opportunities for product impact, to build a product environment that actively benefits from research, and to provide our staff the freedom to work on important research problems that are not tied to immediate product needs. Some of the most exciting research enables new products, or even new businesses, that we cannot imagine today.
Given the diversity of research projects that we pursue, we have found it useful to define three types of work to help crystalize the goals of projects and allow us to measure progress. Although the organization as a whole needs to include all three types of work, teams or individuals typically emphasize a subset of them.
AI basic research and fundamental applied research
Such projects address key scientific or engineering questions or develop fundamentally new capabilities. Successful outcomes might be better technology, useful theories ,new algorithm or new discoveries. We use established scientific benchmarks or develop new ones for measuring progress. These projects can tackle scientific problems motivated by user/product needs, they often move faster when conducted dependently of existing products.
New Product Innovation & Medical Applications
These projects explore and develop new products or even new businesses that require substantial research. The necessary research typically has either significant depth and enables new capabilities or significant breadth and combines a variety of technologies in novel ways. Near-term measures of success include demos, prototypes or pilots that prove user / customer utility and . Long-term, these efforts will ultimately be measured by business (e.g. profit, usage scale).
Critical product & technology contributions
We use the results to improve human-computer interaction.Our staffs in this domain may call themselves researchers or engineers and may or may not report into the product team, but in all cases their work is characterized by deep, essential contributions to products.These efforts often motivate additional research questions that can be studied either directly in the context of the product or abstracted into standalone fundamental research projects.
We work closely with the Research Institutes and the broader scientific community
A final essential component of our philosophy is supporting the free exchange of ideas and maintaining close contact with the broader scientific community, in academia and industry.
Ultimately, sharing our work and being good members of the scientific community is not just the right thing to do, it also provides many important benefits to our company.
