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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 language coach offering conversational practice with real-time feedback across 130+ languages.
AI-scored practice platform for PTE Academic and PTE Core exam prep, with question banks, predictions and study tools.
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
- ✦Conversational practice with AI tutors
- ✦Real-time personalized feedback and corrections
- ✦Dialogue, sentence, word, call, photo, and debate modes
- ✦Voice interaction with natural AI voices
- ✦Grammar courses and language certificates
- ✦130+ languages on web, iOS, and Android
- ✦AI scoring for speaking and writing
- ✦Full PTE question-type practice
- ✦Weekly exam prediction files
- ✦Vocabulary books and shadowing tools
- ✦AI study plan and score analysis
- ✦Web and mobile app sync
- ✦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
- →Self-learners practicing conversational fluency
- →Business teams training employees in new languages
- →Students supplementing classroom language education
- →Preparing for PTE Academic/Core exams
- →Practicing speaking and writing with AI feedback
- →Studying likely exam questions
- →Tracking prep progress
- →getting live answers during job interviews
- →coding interview assistance
- →meeting note-taking