In a 48‑hour hackathon co‑hosted by Xiaoshu Technology and Microsoft Accelerator, 31 teams built and demonstrated AI agents across ten enterprise scenarios, revealing practical challenges, design trade‑offs, and emerging trends for moving agents from experimental toys to real‑world enterprise tools.
The 23rd CCF C³ Forum, organized by Alibaba’s Alimama and the CCF CTO Club, examined how large‑model AI is reshaping intelligent business technology, from data‑driven to knowledge‑driven approaches, enhancing e‑commerce with smarter search, personalized recommendations, content creation, and guiding merchants on future AI‑native strategies.
This article describes the background, requirement‑driven prototype design, Elasticsearch‑based query‑DSL selection, and extensive performance tuning—including hardware configuration, indexing parameters, JVM and garbage‑collector adjustments—that enabled real‑time ingestion of hundreds of thousands of records and sub‑second search responses for a city‑wide data platform.
The article announces a PhD workshop, outlines Hulu’s research center and its six AI‑focused teams—personalization, data science, video codec, content understanding, intelligent search, and ad intelligence—while highlighting key projects and inviting PhD candidates to apply.
