Academic
Chinese AI writing templates for papers, reports, marketing copy
Consensus
AI search engine that shows what the science actually says
Elicit
AI research assistant for academic literature reviews
Explainpaper
Highlight a confusing line in a paper, get a plain-English fix.
AI research search with per-line citations across 200M+ sources
Mendeley
Academic reference manager (Elsevier)
Chinese AI search engine with academic depth and pay-per-query API
Open Knowledge Maps
Free visual maps clustering the top 100 papers on any topic
OpenAgents
Open-source research platform for language agents — now dormant.
PolyCoder
CMU's 2022 code LLM — the first fully open Codex-era code model
Rayyan
AI-assisted screening for systematic reviews, free tier included
Research Rabbit
Visual citation-network mapper for papers — still free, now has RR+.
Scholarcy
Turns papers into structured flashcards: findings, methods, refs.
Scite
Citation index that flags support vs. contradiction, not just count
Tiangong AI Search 天工AI搜索
Kunlun's Chinese AI search engine with a 200M-paper academic index
Undermind
Deep AI literature search that trades speed for near-total recall
Vicuna
Fine-tuned open-source chatbot trained on ShareGPT conversations — 90% quality of ChatGPT at minimal cost.
Youdao Reading 有道速读
NetEase Youdao's AI reader for English papers, with live translation
Zotero
Open-source reference manager
