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Open-source deep research agent that reads sources in parallel and writes cited reports you self-host

An MIT-licensed GitHub repo that rescans AI projects every six hours and publishes auditable ranked leaderboards.

Open-source AI co-scientist that runs scientific research workflows: literature search, Python code, and experiments in one workspace.

OpenRead is an AI research platform combining paper search, cited Q&A, cross-paper comparison, notes, and writing help in one browser workspace.

GitHubDaily curates the best open-source GitHub projects into a free, bilingual reading list for developers.

LTP is HIT-SCIR's open-source Chinese NLP toolkit — segmentation, POS tagging, NER, dependency parsing and semantic dependency parsing via pip install ltp.

AI-assisted PubMed search: type a plain-language question, chat with the open-access literature, export a citeable PDF report — free, no

A browser canvas where you and your team place AI generation next to the source material it should use.

Multi-agent research that turns a question into a sourced deck, Excel model, or app

AI research assistant that searches 138M+ papers and 545K clinical trials and builds cited reports, tables and systematic reviews

Innogath turns a research question into a cited, branchable report you can export as PDF or DOCX.

LitSource turns a biomedical claim into PubMed papers and checks your references against real scholarly records.

AI fact-checking that verifies text and YouTube videos claim by claim against trusted sources

A curated feed of real problems people describe and say they would pay to solve.

A free browser tool that turns a word into an editable graph of its prefixes, roots and suffixes.

Search and download a free corpus of 81,735 modern Chinese poems by 3,489 poets — open-access Chinese poetry data.

Fojin merges 613+ digitized Buddhist canon sources across Pali, Chinese and Tibetan with AI Q&A that cites the exact passage.

Free, no-signup browser search that digs past standard results on public people, topics and organizations.

SapienAI is an open, self-hostable agentic research workspace that unites AI agents with collaborative LaTeX, Typst and Markdown writing.

STORM generates Wikipedia-style research reports with inline citations from a single topic prompt.

Scite.ai's Smart Citations show whether later research supported or contradicted a scientific claim, sentence by sentence.

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

Academic summarizer that turns papers, PDFs and videos into interactive summary flashcards you can study and reuse.

Anara is an AI research assistant that searches 300M+ papers and grounds every answer in passage-level citations.

SciSpace is an AI research assistant for chatting with PDFs, running literature reviews, and extracting data from papers.

ResearchRabbit maps citation networks from a single seed paper, turning literature discovery into a visual rabbit hole over 320 million

Litmaps maps a research field by plotting seed papers on a date-versus-citation graph for literature review.

An enterprise knowledge layer that controls what an AI model reads and records how it answered, built for regulated R&D teams.

AI academic search engine that answers research questions with cited peer-reviewed papers

Otio is a persistent AI research workspace that keeps hundreds of PDFs, videos and podcasts searchable with page-level citations.