The original idea behind AIPE was actually very simple: I wanted to build a truly open platform that people could freely use, contribute to, and continuously improve.
Throughout our lives, we meet all kinds of people. I have always believed that many of them are exceptionally talented in certain areas, yet they may never be given the opportunity to discover, develop, or fully express that talent. Some people may spend their entire lives without ever finding the thing they are truly good at.
In many ways, I am still searching too.
Even today, I am not sure that I have fully discovered what I am truly best at, or what people might call my “talent”. But life rarely unfolds exactly as planned. At different moments, through choices, accidents, opportunities and circumstances, we find ourselves entering certain fields, spending years learning and working, and gradually building our own understanding of them.
For me, AIPE emerged from that process.
For more than a decade, I have studied, researched and worked in power electronics and energy-related fields. In many ways, AIPE is a way of turning those years of accumulated knowledge, experience and understanding into an open platform that others can build upon.
I know very well that I am not the best person in this field, and I could never build everything alone.
But that is not really the point.
What I hope AIPE can become is a foundation.
In the future, people who are genuinely interested in this field — people who are more talented, more creative, and perhaps far more capable than I am — can stand on that foundation and continue building forward. They should be able to use it, modify it, expand it, challenge it, and even replace parts of it with something better.
And in the age of AI, I hope that humans will not be the only ones contributing to that process.
As large language models continue to improve, I hope AIPE itself can also be increasingly understood, maintained, refined and extended by AI. It should not be a piece of software that is built once and then slowly becomes outdated. Ideally, it should become an open system that evolves alongside both human knowledge and artificial intelligence.
I believe many people in many other fields will eventually build similar things. And perhaps all of these efforts point toward something much larger than any single platform or piece of software.
One of the most important possibilities of AI, in my view, is that it may allow ordinary individuals to discover, develop and amplify their abilities with far fewer resources than ever before.
In the past, a large part of a person’s life could be consumed by survival, repetitive work, administrative tasks and conventional ways of working. Many creative ideas disappeared before they ever had the chance to grow, simply because people lacked the time, resources or support to pursue them.
AI may begin to change that. It can amplify the capabilities of a single person and give individuals access to tools and productive capacity that once required an entire team, an institution, or even a large company.
If those capabilities become widely accessible, then perhaps more people will have the opportunity to truly explore what they are good at.
To find their interests.
To discover their talents.
To identify the work they genuinely want to devote themselves to.
And ultimately, to give every individual a better chance to express what is unique about them, rather than allowing that potential to be gradually consumed by the routine demands of everyday life.
If AIPE can eventually become even a very small part of that process — if it can help a student, an engineer, or someone without access to significant resources enter a field more easily, learn faster, avoid unnecessary barriers, and perhaps even discover something they truly love doing — then I believe it will already have served a meaningful purpose.
Because ultimately, my hope is not simply that AIPE becomes powerful.
My deeper hope is that, in the age of AI, every individual has a better chance to discover and amplify their own talents, to pursue the work they genuinely care about, and to find their own sense of value and meaning in life.
Fulong LiFounder, AIPE Labs
