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Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.
Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
AI education platform with 80+ teacher tools and student features, built for schools with privacy controls.
AI study app that turns notes, PDFs, YouTube and slides into quizzes and flashcards to help students revise.
AI-personalized online A Level and GCSE courses for UK students, backed by an A*/A grade guarantee or money back.
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- ✦AI-powered semantic search across 236M+ papers
- ✦Semantic Reader for augmented, contextual paper reading
- ✦Free public API for paper search and metadata
- ✦Author and topic discovery
- ✦Citation graph exploration
- ✦Beta program for new features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦80+ AI teacher tools
- ✦50+ safe student tools
- ✦AI instructional coach
- ✦Enterprise-grade security and privacy
- ✦District dashboards and rollout support
- ✦Free for teachers
- ✦AI-generated quizzes
- ✦Flashcard maker
- ✦Create flashcards from PDFs, notes and slides
- ✦YouTube and PowerPoint summarizers
- ✦Spaced-repetition study
- ✦Mobile app
- ✦Interactive video lessons mapped to specific exam boards
- ✦AI diagnostic algorithm for personalized revision
- ✦Detailed progress tracking across the curriculum
- ✦Guided exam-question walkthroughs
- ✦24/7 online tutor support via chat
- ✦A*/A grade guarantee with money-back policy
- ✦3-day free trial with no payment details required
- →Researchers searching scientific literature across disciplines
- →Developers building applications on top of scholarly data via the API
- →Students exploring citation networks for a topic
- →Librarians and academics needing free literature discovery tools
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Plan lessons and cut prep time
- →Personalize student learning
- →Roll out AI safely across a district
- →Build student AI literacy
- →Revise for school and university exams
- →Turn notes and PDFs into flashcards
- →Study with AI-generated quizzes
- →A Level students preparing for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, or Cambridge International exams
- →GCSE students studying Combined Science
- →Students wanting AI-personalized revision instead of generic textbooks
- →Schools looking to boost student attainment with a supplementary platform