What is the best research AI right now?

Not measured — no engine answer has been captured on this question yet. That is different from the engines answering and naming nobody.

8 of 13 names confirmed · named in 2 or more of 5 answers · 0 engines

The best research AI depends on the specific needs of the user, with different tools excelling in areas such as academic literature, web research, and document synthesis. Perplexity Pro and Consensus are strong options for broad research and academic rigor, while Elicit and NotebookLM are better suited for systematic literature reviews and synthesizing personal documents. The choice of tool ultimately depends on the user's specific requirements and preferences.

1Elicitnamed in 4 of 5 answers
2Consensusnamed in 3 of 5 answers
3Google NotebookLMnamed in 3 of 5 answers
4OpenAInamed in 2 of 5 answers
5Perplexity AInamed in 2 of 5 answers
6Scitenamed in 2 of 5 answers
7ResearchRabbitnamed in 2 of 5 answers
8Google Gemininamed in 2 of 5 answers
9Perplexity Pronamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
10SciSpacenamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
11NotebookLMnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
12Perplexitynamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
13Anthropic Claude AInamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer

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The full measurement

The position each of the 5 engines gave all 13 names.
How many of the 5 answers named each of them.
Where the engines disagree, and by how much.
Fan-out — the query each engine actually searched.
Every citation, and the sources nobody cited.

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