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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.
Plant identification app with a 17,000+ species database plus care schedules, disease ID and botanist Q&A for home gardeners.
Gamified platform to learn 20+ programming languages via interactive lessons, a browser playground and an AI tutor.
Browser extension that adds dual subtitles and click-to-lookup to Netflix and YouTube for learning languages.
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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
- ✦Photo-based plant identification
- ✦Database of 17,000+ species
- ✦Disease and pest identification
- ✦Personalized watering and care schedules
- ✦Ask-the-Botanist expert answers
- ✦Customizable plant lists and reminders
- ✦Interactive lessons in 20+ languages
- ✦Browser playground to run code with no setup
- ✦AI tutor that explains and debugs code
- ✦Shareable completion certifications
- ✦Cheat sheets, docs and developer tools
- ✦Team/business training option
- ✦Dual subtitles on Netflix and YouTube
- ✦Click-to-lookup word translations
- ✦Saveable vocabulary items
- ✦Playback controls for language study
- ✦Works as a browser extension
- →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
- →Identify an unknown houseplant or flower
- →Diagnose plant diseases and pests
- →Set up a watering and care routine
- →Learn care specifics for a species
- →Learning to code from scratch
- →Practicing a new programming language
- →Getting instant AI help while coding
- →Earning certificates to share
- →Onboarding and training engineering teams
- →Learn a language while watching shows
- →Look up and save new words from video
- →Study with dual subtitles