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Free AI-powered research tool for searching 238 million scientific papers, with TLDR summaries and citation graphs.

Otio is a persistent AI research workspace that keeps every PDF, article, video and transcript you upload in one searchable library, with page-level citations

AI research platform that runs multi-step literature searches across 300+ scientific, clinical, regulatory and patent databases and returns citation-backed

Source-grounded AI research assistant that cites the documents you upload — now called Gemini Notebook

Free Stanford research prototype that turns a topic into a cited, Wikipedia-style report through simulated expert–learner AI dialogue.

Anara is an AI research assistant that searches your library and the web and cites every answer to its exact source.

Chat with PDF and run citation-backed literature review, then draft papers with SciSpace's academic AI writer.

Paxton AI is a legal AI assistant for litigation teams — tied to a matter record, research, and drafting across all 50 states.

Elicit is an AI research assistant that searches 138M+ papers and clinical trials, then writes fully cited evidence reviews.

Turn open-access research papers into audio podcasts and ask them questions by chat.

AI research paper reader that explains highlighted text instantly.

Scholarcy is an AI academic summarizer that turns research papers and PDFs into interactive summary flashcards, notes, and study guides.

AI research workspace that searches, reads, and cites your document library with verifiable source references.

Consensus is an AI academic search engine that answers research questions with cited evidence from 220M+ peer-reviewed papers.

AI market intelligence platform that turns 500M+ premium finance documents into cited, no-hallucination research.

remio is a local-first AI agent that turns your files, meetings, and research into finished slide decks, spreadsheets, and reports.

ScienceClaw: a transparent, secure AI research assistant for literature review and data analysis.

Open-source, local-first AI workbench for the full scientific research lifecycle, with bundled scientific database tools and your choice of model provider.

Free Chrome extension that summarizes, chats, and researches any web page by voice or text.

Proactive AI second brain that auto-organizes saved content into guided learning flows.

AI research assistant that searches 200M+ peer-reviewed papers and auto-cites in 2,600+ styles

IKI AI is an LLM-powered knowledge workspace that captures your reads, summarizes them, and writes grounded in your own library.

Ask questions across all your PDF files and get answers with cited sources.

Perplexity is a cited AI answer engine that puts a verifiable source link on every answer it gives.

MyMemo AI turns saved links, videos and notes into a chat-ready second brain you can actually query

Chrome extension that summarizes web pages, PDFs and news into short notes you can share with your team

AI-generated nonfiction book summaries you can listen to or read in minutes.

Highlight the web, PDFs, YouTube, and Kindle, then query your own marked-up ideas with AI.

A visual knowledge base with an AI Tutor that builds structured courses from your own sources.

Document AI workspace for summarizing, comparing, and citing sources with verifiable insights.