Elicit AI is a powerful, free research assistant that utilizes the most advanced language models to make academic workflows easier and quicker, particularly literature reviews. It has access to over 126 million papers from Semantic Scholar, assisting you in finding relevant studies, summarizing key points, and extracting data into customizable tables, all without exact keyword matches. You can ask “Okay, what are the effects of X on Y?” and get either short summaries or full insights, with natural-language queries through the “Chat with Papers” option. It is especially useful for empirical fields such as biomedicine and machine learning. Think of Elicit as automation for hours of screenings, data extraction, and systematic review, limited only by 90% accuracy. You can upload your own PDFs, and all data remains private. While it’s better at handling empirical research, it’s not so great for non-empirical ones; also, in reliance on Semantic Scholar, it may fail to completely capture the content of paywalled journals.
