Research
Cited document chat plus a reference manager, now called Logically
Stanford's instruction-tuned Llama model — trained on 52k GPT-generated instructions for $600.
Microsoft's open-source multi-agent framework
The viral 2023 agent loop, reborn as a self-building framework
The first multilingual open-access large language model, created collaboratively by 1,000+ researchers.
Chat with any file and trace every answer to the page
AI search engine that shows what the science actually says
Collaborative notebook that went open-source, drop-in for Jupyter
Databricks' open-source instruction-following model — trained on human-generated data, commercial use permitted.
AI research assistant for academic literature reviews
Highlight a confusing line in a paper, get a plain-English fix.
Institutional-grade equity data with an AI research copilot
Source-grounded research notebook with podcast-style summaries
AI research summarizer with team collaboration
The QLoRA demo chatbot that made single-GPU fine-tuning standard
Cited answers pulled straight from your PDFs
Empathic voice AI that responds to emotion
Open-source code infilling model — generates code in the middle of existing functions, not just at the end.
AI research assistant for scientists and analysts
Long-context chat assistant from Moonshot AI
Berkeley's 2023 dialogue-tuned LLaMA — a research-era milestone
Discover related research with citation-graph mapping
Multi-agent framework that role-plays a software company
Chinese AI search engine with academic depth and pay-per-query API
Meta's open-source language model with fully released training code and logbook — complete transparency.
Microsoft Research's reasoning-tuned small models — research-only
AI summaries of academic papers and trial protocols
AI research assistant with semantic paper search
Academic writing help trained on published scholarly text
The answer engine that cites its sources on every live web query
Turns Perplexity research threads into shareable, cited web pages
$20/mo Perplexity tier: unlimited search + model choice.
Perplexity's shared folders for recurring research projects
CMU's 2022 code LLM — the first fully open Codex-era code model
Chat with spreadsheets; hand full analyses to AI agents
Python-specialised code generation model — trained exclusively on high-quality Python to maximise Python coding quality.
Vietnam deleted the rule that made its ID numbers decodable, and nobody stopped decoding them
Since 1 July 2024 no Vietnamese instrument says the 12-digit citizen ID has any internal structure. The decree...
SA
4 Sep
The calcium formula everyone uses is not the one it cites
Corrected calcium is computed with a coefficient of 0.8 and attributed to Payne 1973 on virtually every clinic...
AM
4 Sep
Half the pronunciation changes people argued about had already happened
The viral lists of Chinese readings the ministry supposedly changed trace to a 2016 draft that was never issue...
EV
3 Sep
Taiwan's passport rules name no romanisation system at all
The received account is that Taiwan uses Wade-Giles, or 通用拼音, or has moved to Hanyu Pinyin. Article 14 of...
EV
3 Sep
Your CO2 monitor's red line is a 19th-century number, and it is drifting
The 1000 ppm line is Pettenkofer's, proposed in the 19th century as a proxy for whether a room smelled stuffy....
NA
3 Sep
Two poison services disagree about how much chocolate your dog can eat
Britain's Veterinary Poisons Information Service answers in grams of chocolate per kilo of dog. The ASPCA and...
AM
3 Sep
Leap seconds end on 20 May 2027, and the Earth has already turned around
The committee that has inserted 27 leap seconds since 1972 is proposing to stop, and to let clock time drift u...
NA
3 Sep
The South Asian number ladder that no two countries share
Lakh and crore are usually presented as one regional system continuing upward into arab and kharab. Take the l...
SA
3 Sep
The kidney formula in your drug label came from seven data points
The 1976 equation that still decides anticoagulant doses was fitted to seven averaged points, drawn from 249 m...
AM
2 Sep
The letter Chinese passports will not print
Hanyu Pinyin has a letter no Chinese travel document will print: ü. The rule that replaces it is two rules, no...
EV
2 Sep
The 226-page book that decides how Macau spells your name
Macau has a statutory table for romanising Cantonese names, running 226 pages of the 1985 gazette. Hong Kong h...
EV
2 Sep
The Chinese festivals that are set by the sun, not the moon
Most Chinese festivals fall on a lunar date, and two of the best known do not. Qingming and the Winter Solstic...
EV
1 Sep
The character that means a million in Beijing and a million million in Taipei
兆 is the SI prefix for mega on the mainland and for tera in Taiwan. It is not a gap between the two conventio...
EV
1 Sep
Mitochondrial DNA does not use the genetic code you were taught
Four codons differ between the standard genetic code and the one your mitochondria use, and two of them are st...
NA
1 Sep
Japan changed its romanisation rules and left names alone
December 2025 replaced the 1954 standard and made Hepburn the basis after roughly seventy years. It explicitly...
SA
1 Sep
Korea's romanisation rules never covered surnames
Apply the official standard to the four commonest Korean surnames and you get Gim, I, Bak and Choe. Passports...
SA
1 Sep
GenAI Reaches 80% of Occupations and 2.8% of Tasks
Reaching 80 per cent of occupations sounds like saturation. It describes contact. Descend to the tasks that ma...
NA
1 Sep
What a country will let you name a child
A name generator hands you something that sounds right; a registrar decides whether it can be recorded. Japan...
SA
31 Aug
Why Tet and Chinese New Year sometimes fall a month apart
In 1985 Vietnam celebrated on 21 January and China on 20 February. The explanation everyone gives for the usua...
EV
31 Aug
Is 2027 a year without spring?
It is — the lunar year from 6 February 2027 contains no 立春, and you can check it against a government table...
EV
31 Aug
10,000 Steps Was a Product Name. The Evidence Says 7,000.
The number is the name of a pedometer sold in Japan in 1965, chosen because it was round and the character for...
AM
30 Aug
Why a Pay Rise Won't Grow Your Pension
The OECD says Thailand's pension replaces 41.5% of an average wage and 20.7% of twice that. Singapore falls fr...
SA
30 Aug
Malaysia's 6GW Data Centre Pipeline Is Announcements, Not Connections
Malaysia leads a regional pipeline of more than 6GW. Its own utility reports 8.3GW of pipeline, 3.8GW under co...
SA
29 Aug
ASEAN's Record $4.12m Breach Cost Comes From 26 Companies
IBM discloses the sample size and the coverage drops it. The comparisons inside the study — 123 days faster de...
KE
29 Aug