As a result of the success of OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, other AI startups soon followed suit by releasing their own large language models trained on corpora of open and copyrighted data. Presently, new AI models and new iterations of past AI models are announced on a nearly daily basis.
| AI Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| Ask Your PDF | Allows users to interact with PDF documents through conversation, simplifying data retrieval and analysis. |
| ChatPDF | Upload a PDF and start asking questions to make reading journal articles faster and easier. |
| Consensus | Analyzes scientific documents to extract key points and data, aiding faster literature reviews. |
| Elicit | AI research assistant that searches, summarizes, and extracts data from over 125 million papers. |
| Inciteful | Helps researchers discover and analyze academic papers and trends through visual maps connecting citations/topics. |
| Ithaka GenAI Tracker | A resource for tracking generative AI tools marketed to postsecondary faculty and students. |
| Keenious | Finds research relevant to any text by allowing AI to analyze documents and explore results. |
| LitMaps | Visualizes relationships between academic papers to track developments and identify key influencers. |
| Perplexity | AI-powered search tool for academic research, summarizing key findings but potentially including paper mills. |
| ResearchRabbit | Visualizes scholarly networks of papers and suggests related articles, like Spotify for research papers. |
| SciSpace | Provides access to over 200 million research papers and summarizes answers to research questions. |
| Scite AI | Uses deep learning to evaluate scientific papers and provides ‘Smart Citations’ indicating support or contradiction. |
| Semantic Scholar | Indexes over 200 million research papers and provides related papers, background citations, methods, etc. |
| Undermind | Uses Semantic Scholar to provide accurate results for academic research topics. |
