Wolfram Research was founded in 1987 by Stephen Wolfram. They develop computational technologies including Mathematica, their flagship product launched in 1988, and WolframAlpha, their question answering product launched in 2009. Wolfram Research has 100 employees, generates revenue through Wolfram Alpha Pro subscriptions, search engine licensing to Bing and DuckDuckGo, and enterprise solutions. Their key advantage is 30 years of research and development in computational technologies.
2. What do they do?
Searches the Web, !
looks for textual matches
and returns links
Generates a specific answer
by doing computations from
its knowledge base
4. History
Wolfram Research !
(Founded By !
Stephen Wolfram)!
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1987
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1988!
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Mathematica !
(Flagship Product)
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2009!
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A New Kind Of Science !
WolframAlpha !
(Launch)
(Flagship Product)!
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2002
5. What do they do?
Make it possible to compute !
whatever can be computed about anything
Linguistic Analysis!
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Curated Data!
Dynamic Computation !
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Computed Presentation !
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6. Financials
A private company with no outside investors!
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Revenue Model:!
- Wolfram Alpha Pro ($5.49 per month) and other paid iOS apps!
- Licensing: Search Engines (Bing and DuckDuckGo) and Voice Q/A (Siri, S Voice
and more) !
- Enterprise and Custom Solutions !
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100 employees