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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.
Daily AI newsletter that condenses AI news, tool spotlights, and practical use cases into a five-minute read for over two million readers.
Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.
AI tutor for school and university subjects with step-by-step help, exam prep, oral/mock exams and flashcards.
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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
- ✦Daily AI news digest delivered by email
- ✦Practical application tips alongside each story
- ✦Exclusive interviews with AI industry leaders
- ✦AI University with guides, tools directory, and courses
- ✦Article archive on AI, tech, and robotics
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
- ✦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
- →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
- →Professionals wanting a quick daily AI news briefing
- →Readers seeking practical ways to apply new AI tools
- →Learners looking for structured AI courses and guides
- →Following exclusive interviews with AI leaders
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
- →Prepare for school or university exams
- →Get help understanding tough concepts
- →Practice oral exams out loud
- →Study from your own notes