Personal research archive / Beijing / 2026

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Living Systems Atlas / INDEX 000

AlexSu

A public field of research, writing, and long-horizon projects across AI, biopharma, economics, and AI–biology pathways toward planetary ecosystem engineering.

BEIJING, CHINA
AI × BIOLOGY
HUMAN / MACHINE / BIOSPHERE
A vivid red deep-sea jellyfish suspended against cobalt-blue water
NO. 01 / OCEAN

Biology is not a vertical. It is the operating system of the future.

FIELD NOTE / 01

Life is infrastructure.

Within evolving systems, diverse individuals and environments select one another and co-evolve. Ecosystems can reshape environments—and transform planets.

Deep-sea corals and sponges forming a dense branching habitat
NO. 03 / BENTHIC

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Official cover of the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
P01 / IntelliPharma Insights

No Silver Bullet: The Evolution of Scientific Intelligence in the Real World

Claude Science, slow real-world feedback, cascade control, information gain, and Kauffman’s open phase space offer a framework for thinking about evolving scientific intelligence.

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Chapter 40 of the Tao Te Ching: Returning is the motion of the Tao. Yielding is the way of the Tao.
P01 / IntelliPharma Insights

Returning Is the Motion of the Tao. Yielding Is the Way of the Tao.

Starting from China’s innovative-drug licensing wave, quasi-market design, reimbursement reform, and capital-market transition, this essay examines the development stage of Chinese pharma and the capabilities that companies and domestic investors must preserve.

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The productivity J-curve of technological and organizational change: performance falls during transition before reaching a higher desired state
P01 / IntelliPharma Insights

AI Drug Discovery Beyond the Office: How Can It Overcome Capital Imbalance?

Using general-purpose technology theory, the productivity J-curve, and capital appropriability, this essay explains why AI clusters in digitally closed spaces—and how AI drug discovery can cross the capital gap in physically and organizationally open systems.

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Clinical progress and early outcomes of AI-discovered molecules in Phase I and Phase II trials
P01 / IntelliPharma Insights

The Value Logic of AI Drug Discovery Companies

Beginning with the Lilly–Insilico collaboration, this essay explains why the value of an AI drug discovery company cannot be reduced to the success rate of a single pipeline—and how capital sentiment, organizational capability, and long-term technological change shape valuation.

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Map of China’s AI drug discovery ecosystem covering AI-biotech, AI-CRO, software platforms, and in-house pharma AI
P01 / IntelliPharma Insights

Participating in the Evolution of AI + Pharma

Beginning with the OpenClaw craze, control theory, and China’s open-source history, this essay examines the capital, governance, and technology tensions shaping AI-powered drug discovery.

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