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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 math solver and tutor that adds animated video explanations for homework across math, physics and chemistry, for students.
AI tutor for school and university subjects with step-by-step help, exam prep, oral/mock exams and flashcards.
Real-time AI interview assistant that transcribes questions and generates answers, marketed as undetectable on screen share.
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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
- ✦Step-by-step problem solutions
- ✦AI-generated animated video explanations
- ✦Interactive practice quizzes and tests
- ✦Coverage of math, physics, chemistry and accounting
- ✦Graphs and diagrams for complex problems
- ✦Mobile app
- ✦Step-by-step subject explanations
- ✦Photo-based math problem solving
- ✦Oral and mock exam practice with grading
- ✦Personalized study plans
- ✦Flashcards from uploaded notes
- ✦Coverage of many subjects, user-created subjects
- ✦real-time question transcription
- ✦AI answers with a choice of GPT or Claude models
- ✦coding interview support
- ✦resume-based personalization
- ✦knowledge base uploads
- ✦invisible during screen share
- ✦AI meeting notes
- →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
- →Getting homework solved step by step
- →Watching video explanations of solutions
- →Practicing with generated quizzes
- →Preparing for exams
- →Prepare for school or university exams
- →Get help understanding tough concepts
- →Practice oral exams out loud
- →Study from your own notes
- →getting live answers during job interviews
- →coding interview assistance
- →meeting note-taking