A free, AI-driven research tool for scientific literature with more than 200 million papers across all fields of study. Proudly built by Ai2 @allen_ai.

Seattle, WA
Joined February 2019
To our loyal Semantic Scholar community — After 7+ years building intelligent tools for researchers, it’s been exhilarating to watch usage grow to nearly 100M active users. Today, we’re excited to share our next big step forward: Asta. 🚀 xitter.cf/allen_ai/status/196032…
Introducing Asta—our bold initiative to accelerate science with trustworthy, capable agents, benchmarks, & developer resources that bring clarity to the landscape of scientific AI + agents. 🧵
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🔹 Asta resources - software components for creating & extending agents. This includes full-text search via the Semantic Scholar API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, making it easier than ever for developers to build on Asta.
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We believe the future of science depends on AI systems you can understand, verify, and trust. That’s what Asta is built for. Join us on this journey to advance agents for science. 🌍 ➡️ asta.allen.ai/chat
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@allen_ai @SemanticScholar is hiring an #ml #nlp #ai reasoning researcher for a Research Scientist, Agents for Science position with target start dates in 2025. Excited about developing AI systems with deep reasoning capabilities for science? Send an application our way!
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Imagine AI doing science: reading papers, generating ideas, designing and running experiments, analyzing results… How many more discoveries can we reveal? 🧐 Meet CodeScientist, a promising next step toward autonomous scientific discovery. 🧵
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Let's find some papers 🔍📚
Meet Ai2 Paper Finder, an LLM-powered literature search system. Searching for relevant work is a multi-step process that requires iteration. Paper Finder mimics this workflow — and helps researchers find more papers than ever 🔍
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Can AI really help with literature reviews? 🧐 Meet Ai2 ScholarQA, an experimental solution that allows you to ask questions that require multiple scientific papers to answer. It gives more in-depth, detailed, and contextual answers with table comparisons, expandable sections for subtopics, and citations with paper excerpts for verification 💡 Try Ai2 ScholarQA now: scholarqa.allen.ai More in 🧵
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The deadline is *today*! ⏰
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@allen_ai @SemanticScholar is hiring #nlproc #hci #ml #ai researchers for a Research Engineer position with target start dates in 2025, apply by *Jan 17, 2025*! Apply: job-boards.greenhouse.io/the…
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1/ Introducing ᴏᴘᴇɴꜱᴄʜᴏʟᴀʀ: a retrieval-augmented LM to help scientists synthesize knowledge 📚 @uwnlp @allen_ai With open models & 45M-paper datastores, it outperforms proprietary systems & match human experts. Try out our demo! We also introduce ꜱᴄʜᴏʟᴀʀQᴀʙᴇɴᴄʜ, a new large-scale multi-domain benchmark for scientific research synthesis, covering CS, Bio and Physics.
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📢 We're seeking an Applied Research Scientist to join our research team! Apply by this Friday!
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@allen_ai @SemanticScholar is hiring #nlproc #hci #ml #ai researchers for an Applied Research Scientist position with target start dates in 2025, apply by *Nov 15*! Apply: job-boards.greenhouse.io/the…
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Are API rate limits holding you back? Overcome rate limits by hosting Semantic Scholar data on your own systems! Join our next webinar presented by Moara.io to learn self-hosting 🧑‍💻 Sign up now: forms.gle/2pcNKMYSNBSiMpDD9
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⏰ Reminder: the application deadline is this Friday!
📢 Are you a #nlproc #hci #ml #ai researcher excited about accelerating science with AI? We're #hiring for Research Scientist, Young Investigator (Postdoc Researcher), and Research Intern with start dates in 2025! job-boards.greenhouse.io/the… Apply by 11/1 for full consideration ⏰
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Our API service is available under certain rate limits - if you're looking for more flexibility, self-hosting is the best solution! Learn how in our upcoming webinar. 💻
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Looking for research partners 🧑‍🤝‍🧑? ResearcherCollab is a mobile app designed to simplify finding research partners, create a global academic network, and explore trending topics in your field: semanticscholar.org/product/…
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excited that our Semantic Reader paper is published in Communications of the ACM! 🥳 📰cacm.acm.org/research/the-se… 📽️youtu.be/W-6qouywnIk?si=Mycx…
The Semantic Reader project combines AI & HCI research to explore the future of scientific reading. We ask: “Can we create intelligent, interactive, and accessible reading interfaces for research papers, even atop existing PDFs?” semanticscholar.org/reader/6… 1/n
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