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AI Research Assistant

Your AI research assistant

Ask questions, understand the evidence, and explore your sources with interactive knowledge maps. Keep your papers, conversations and notes together in one workspace.

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Atlas workspace showing a horizon-view semantic map of 110 multi-agent learning research papers
Atlas PDF reader alongside the paper’s knowledge map and chat
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How to use an AI research assistant

Start with what you want to understand. Find relevant papers or bring your own sources, then ask Atlas to explain the ideas and evidence.

  1. Ask your question

    Ask about a concept, a finding or a question you are researching.

  2. Find your sources

    Search for papers in Atlas or add the sources you already have.

  3. Follow the evidence

    Read the answer, open its citations, and save useful findings as notes.

Research with PDFs, articles and videos

Bring a paper, an article or a YouTube lecture into your project. Ask for an explanation of one source or compare findings across several.

  • Understand a paper

    Get help with the argument, methods and findings in a paper or report.

  • Explore an explanation

    Ask follow-up questions about an article or a video's transcript.

  • Compare your sources

    See where papers agree, where they differ, and which questions remain open.

Explore supported sources

Understand the answer. See the evidence.

Follow a citation from the answer to the source. Read the surrounding passage to understand how the evidence supports the explanation.

A citation opens the paper's original conclusion beside the answer.
Original conclusion on page 10 of Attention Is All You Need, opened from the answer citation.
A citation opens the paper's original conclusion beside the answer.
  • Question

    Tell Atlas what you want to understand.

  • Answer

    Get an explanation with references to your sources.

  • Source

    Open the original and read the evidence in context.

Keep what you learn

Save useful answers as notes alongside your sources. When you return to your project, your papers, conversations and findings are there to continue from.

Save a useful answer as a note in the same project as your papers.
Save a useful answer as a note in the same project as your papers.

AI research assistant FAQ

Start with your next research question

Find the papers, understand the answers, and keep what you learn in Atlas.

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