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Learn AI engineering hands-on: 130+ short courses on agents, RAG, and Claude Code, plus team licensing.

LabFig is an AI scientific figure generator that turns a prompt, sketch, PDF, or lab photo into an editable vector figure draft.

Amit Chaudhary's working notebook on agent frameworks, LLM evals, and open-source tooling — read as a chronological X feed.

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

AI scientific figure generator that turns prompts, methods text, or CSV data into editable, publication-ready figures

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

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

ResearchCollab.ai turns a research question into a fully cited literature review draft — Topic Map to PRISMA in one workspace.

K-Dense BYOK runs 326 scientific workflows as a free desktop AI co-scientist on the model keys you already own.

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

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

AI semantic search across 6M+ U.S. newspaper stories, 1730s–1960s, with cited answers and a direct AI connection.

Free AWS workshop for building agentic workflows with Strands Agents, Bedrock AgentCore, and SageMaker AI

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

A free AI engineering course where you build backprop, tokenizers, attention and agent loops from raw math before any framework import

Vega runs AI-moderated stakeholder interviews at workforce scale and surfaces the themes that drive decisions.

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

Chinese-language LLM courses for RAG, AI Agents, and Spec-Driven Development — plus a 6K+ star interview question bank

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

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

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

Build reusable Claude skills that give you consistent Excel, PowerPoint and data output on every run

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.

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.

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

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

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

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