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Futurwise
✓ verifiedFreemium
Curated intelligence app delivering verified, attributed human analysis across tech, climate, health and mobility.
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Semantic Scholar
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Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.
7.9M visits/mo13K saves
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bayuegua.com
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Chinese patent-search platform offering bilingual retrieval and analysis of global patents and technology intelligence.
8.3K visits/mo
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Core features
- ✦Curated intelligence across four domains
- ✦Tiered source channels from news to research
- ✦Verified and attributed human insight
- ✦Daily updates on fast-changing topics
- ✦Mobile and web access
- ✦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
- ✦Smart keyword patent search
- ✦Number-based search
- ✦Company/competitor search
- ✦Advanced field-combination search
- ✦Chinese-English bilingual patent data
- ✦AI-driven tech intelligence analysis
Use cases
- →Staying informed on emerging tech and policy
- →Following expert analysis over algorithmic feeds
- →Tracking research shaping the next few years
- →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
- →Search global patents in Chinese
- →Analyze competitor IP
- →Technology evaluation and navigation
- →Access bilingual patent full text
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