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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 tool that summarizes scientific papers into abstract, methods, results, and conclusion sections, with figure and citation support.
AI research assistant for reading, searching, and writing about academic papers, built for researchers managing a personal library.
Daily AI newsletter that condenses AI news, tool spotlights, and practical use cases into a five-minute read for over two million readers.
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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
- ✦Structured section-by-section paper summarization
- ✦Bulk and multi-paper summarization and comparison
- ✦Chat with figures for data interpretation
- ✦Folder and tag-based library organization
- ✦Semantic search across indexed documents on Pro
- ✦ChatGPT connector integration
- ✦AI-assisted search across academic papers
- ✦Chat-based Q&A over uploaded documents with source citations
- ✦Personal research library with retention limits by plan
- ✦AI writing agent for drafting research-based content
- ✦API access for institutions and businesses
- ✦Adjustable file upload size (up to 300 pages on top tier)
- ✦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
- →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
- →Students digesting dense research papers quickly
- →Researchers doing literature reviews across many papers
- →Academics organizing a personal paper library
- →Finding papers relevant to a research topic
- →Getting quick summaries and answers from long PDFs
- →Managing and revisiting a personal library of research papers
- →Drafting literature-informed writing with AI assistance
- →Integrating paper search/analysis into an institution's own tools via API
- →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