Wolfram Research

Wolfram Research is a software company providing a technical computation platform to help research, education, and development. The company's goal is to provide a framework allowing computation to achieve its full potential, making it possible to compute whatever is needed. Wolfram's technology has use cases across a range of fields, including the following:

• Engineering
• Finance, data science, and business
• Software engineering, application development, and content delivery
• Math, Science, and Technology
• Education

Founded in 1987 by Stephen Wolfram and Theodore Gray, the company is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. In 1988, the company released its flagship product, Mathematica, a continually expanding software covering technical computing. In 2009, the company released Wolfram Alpha, an answer or knowledge engine containing vast amounts of data about the world linked together using the Mathematica language such that the system can make inferences Benefiting the user experience. In March 2014, Wolfram Research introduced the Wolfram Language, a knowledge-based programming language that unifies a broad range of programming paradigms and its unique concept of symbolic programming.

In March 2023, Wolfram Research and OpenAI announced a Wolfram plugin from within ChatGPT. Wolfram Alpha and Wolfram language are now accessible by ChatGPT. In response to a user prompt, the chatbot can now formulate queries for Wolfram Alpha, then rework the response to decide what to output for the user. The response states "Used Wolfram," informing the user where the data was sourced.

Example of the Wolfram ChatGPT plugin in use.