100QA: A Grand Blueprint for Reshaping Human Knowledge with AI
What is 100QA? The Fusion of Perfect Q&A and Massive Knowledge
The name "100QA" carries a dual meaning:
- 100-Point Q&A: Our core pursuit is quality. Every Q&A aims to achieve a "100-point" standard – professional, reliable, and easy to understand, providing users with trustworthy knowledge.
- The Grand Vision of 10¹⁷ (100 Quadrillion) in Massive Scale: This name represents our vision: to create an unprecedentedly massive, high-quality Q&A database covering all fields of human knowledge.
Our ultimate goal is to leverage the power of AI to systematically organize human knowledge and form the world's best Q&A database.
Three Evolutions of Q&A Systems: From Portals to AI
The way humans acquire knowledge has undergone a long evolution, and the development of Q&A systems is a microcosm of this process:
- Portal Era: Represented by Yahoo Answers and Baidu Baike. Knowledge was edited and aggregated by a few professionals or institutions, forming a centralized knowledge base. This was an era of "people searching for knowledge."
- Social Era: Represented by Quora and Zhihu. Platforms leveraged the power of social networks, allowing a wide range of users to participate in asking and answering questions, and producing and filtering content through "collective intelligence." This was an era of "people asking people."
- AI Era (Present): Represented by 100QA.ai. We are entering a new paradigm – human-AI collaboration in co-creating knowledge. In this model, AI is responsible for generating and iterating answers at scale and with high quality, while humans can focus their energy on more creative aspects: asking good questions and conducting content review.
The Origin of 100QA: Why Now?
The idea of automatically generating Q&A with machines is something we attempted long ago. However, limited by the technology of the time, this vision remained difficult to realize. But today, we clearly see two historical opportunities that make it all possible:
- On one hand, AI capabilities have matured sufficiently: AI technologies, represented by Large Language Models (LLMs), have made breakthrough progress. As long as a high-quality question can be input, AI can produce professional and reliable answers comparable to, or even surpassing, human experts. The bottleneck in answer generation has been broken.
- "Good questions" have become a new scarce resource: The depth and value of an answer often depend on the question itself. A precise, profound, and insightful question is the key to unlocking high-quality knowledge. However, asking good questions is not easy. Once AI solves the "answering" problem, the value of "questioning" becomes prominent.
- "Browsing" is the core need for 99% of users: For most people, actively asking questions is a low-frequency behavior. We are more accustomed to discovering and absorbing knowledge by browsing, much like reading a book or a magazine. A well-organized, systematic Q&A page can satisfy the knowledge-seeking needs of 99% of users far better than a passive Q&A box.
It is based on these insights that 100QA.ai came into being.
Our Mission and Milestones
The mission of 100QA.ai is: to generate sufficiently excellent and abundant Q&A pages in every field of human knowledge using AI technology, making them available for all humanity to freely browse and explore.
We no longer passively wait for users to ask questions; instead, we proactively build lighthouses of knowledge for every discipline, every concept, and every entity.
To achieve this grand goal, we have set a clear milestone: to form a data goldmine containing one billion high-quality Q&As.
100QA Development Roadmap
The table below clearly outlines our four development stages, from technology validation to becoming the world's largest knowledge base, with clear quantitative targets and core tasks for each stage.
- Stage 0: 10,000 Questions
- Core Task: Test and evaluate mainstream large language models to find the one with the best overall performance in answer generation and multilingual translation.
- Milestone: Technology validation and model selection.
- Stage 1: 10 Million Questions
- Core Task: Build a standardized three-tier question-and-answer system architecture: 1) Human expert answers (top-tier quality), 2) General AI answers (broad coverage), and 3) AI + targeted database answers (vertical domain depth).
- Milestone: Establishment of the core system and quality standards.
- Stage 2: 100 Million Questions
- Core Task: Achieve scale leadership by surpassing leading global knowledge platforms like Quora and Zhihu in total number of Q&A data points.
- Milestone: Laying the foundation for market leadership.
- Stage 3: 10 Billion Questions
- Core Task: Construct the largest Q&A database in human history, achieving undisputed leadership in both the quantity and quality of all knowledge domains.
- Milestone: Becoming a global knowledge infrastructure.