Reading dense academic PDFs with an AI chat assistant alongside the text
Best free AI tools for students
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Checking whether other papers actually support or contradict a source before citing it
Generating correctly formatted citations and checking a paper for AI-generated text or plagiarism
Finding and understanding academic papers quickly
Collecting sources and generating citations/bibliographies automatically in any style