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Coactive AI

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Coactive turns video and image libraries into structured, searchable intelligence at petabyte scale. Using multimodal AI, it auto-tags content, enables semantic search, and chains models for deeper insights — helping media, entertainment, and enterprise teams manage, monetize, and measure unstructured visual data. The platform integrates with Bedrock, Azure AI, and Databricks.

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CoreWise.Video

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AI-powered platform for extracting insights from any link - videos, articles, or PDFs. Features deep research with 4-layer Mixture-of-Agents, mind maps, research slides, and multi-model debate arena.

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DailyScope AI

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Free

AI-powered global news analysis platform that automatically identifies patterns, themes, and emerging trends across worldwide news sources. Provides daily insights and trend reports without manual curation.

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Elicit

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Free

AI automation tool for scientific research that automatically generates literature reviews, finds relevant papers, extracts key findings, and creates structured research reports with citations.

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Exa Deep

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Paid

Exa's new agentic search tier that delivers synthesized, reasoning-grade web results for AI agents and LLMs. Exa Deep offers two modes—'deep' (4-12s latency) and 'deep-reasoning' (12-50s latency)—designed to give AI agents comprehensive, semantically-processed web information rather than raw links. Launched March 2026 alongside an updated pricing structure.

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Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine

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The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine (IsoDDE) is an AI system that moves beyond protein structure prediction into active drug design, achieving double the accuracy of AlphaFold 3 on complex structural predictions. Published in February 2026, it predicts binding affinity and identifies cryptic binding sites from just protein sequences, dramatically accelerating the drug discovery process from years to weeks.

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Listen Labs

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Listen Labs is an AI-powered qualitative research platform that conducts deep one-on-one interviews at scale across 30M+ participants. It uses AI moderation, emotion detection, and dynamic probing to deliver consultant-quality analysis in under 24 hours. The platform raised $69M in Series B funding in March 2026 to expand AI-driven customer insights.

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Livedocs AI

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Freemium

Collaborative data analysis platform launched in January 2026 that replaces traditional data tools like Jupyter, Hex, and Deepnote. Features Python, SQL, DuckDB, and Polars support with natural language querying.

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Luminix

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Paid

Multi-agent AI research platform that conducts comprehensive research analysis across multiple sources. Uses coordinated AI agents to gather, analyze, and synthesize information for deep research tasks.

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MAI Playground

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Freemium

MAI Playground is Microsoft's AI model testing platform giving developers direct access to its latest in-house foundational models, including MAI-Image-2 (top-3 text-to-image on the Arena.ai leaderboard), MAI-Voice-1 (ultra-fast voice generation at 60 seconds of audio per second), and MAI-Transcribe-1 (high-accuracy speech-to-text). All models are available for commercial use via Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground interface.

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Memories.ai

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Memories.ai is building the visual memory layer for wearables and robotics, partnering with NVIDIA to index and retrieve video-recorded memories for physical AI systems. Founded by former Meta researchers, it provides a large visual memory model that processes and retains visual data from device sensors, creating a searchable record of what AI systems have 'seen'. Designed to give wearables and robots persistent, recall-capable memory in the real world.

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MiroThinker 72B

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Free

MiroThinker 72B is a powerful open-source reasoning model by Miro Lab that uses interactive scaling — running internal verification cycles before producing output rather than generating immediately. It achieves 81.9% on the GAIA benchmark, matching paid frontier model performance on complex logical reasoning tasks, and is available for free download and local deployment.

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NBot AI

Research
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Freemium

Personal AI radar that monitors thousands of sources 24/7 for topics you care about. Create custom trackers using natural language, get AI-summarized insights with source citations, and refine results through chat.

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Needle

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Freemium

AI-powered knowledge threading platform that enables fast information discovery across all your data sources. Features a RAG API for developers to build agentic AI applications with enterprise data, supporting workflow automation and intelligent search.

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OpenAI Prism

Research
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Free

A free AI-powered workspace for scientific writing and collaboration. It brings drafting, revision, collaboration, and publication into a single cloud-based LaTeX-native workspace with GPT-5.2 integrated directly into the authoring environment.

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OpenHunt

Research
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Free

OpenHunt is an AI-native product launch and discovery platform where multiple autonomous agents analyze every submitted product and generate structured insights before the community even sees it. It's built for the post-algorithm internet, giving builders a smarter alternative to traditional launch platforms. Community members then vote on what truly deserves attention, backed by agent-generated signal.

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OpenRead

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Freemium

AI research platform that searches millions of academic papers, provides AI-assisted Q&A with papers, network analysis for literature discovery, and interactive note-taking for researchers.

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Paperguide AI

Research
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Freemium

All-in-one AI research platform combining literature discovery, AI-powered review, systematic research synthesis, citation management, and PDF analysis for academic writing.

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Perplexity Deep Research

Research
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Freemium

Perplexity AI's upgraded autonomous research agent that performs dozens of web searches, reads hundreds of sources, and delivers a structured, cited research report in 2–4 minutes. Launched March 15, 2026, it ranks among the best AI research tools for comprehensive multi-source synthesis.

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Perplexity Embeddings

Research
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Free

Open-source embedding models for AI search systems, designed to improve retrieval accuracy and support multilingual search tasks with efficient memory usage.

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Perplexity Model Council

Research
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Freemium

Perplexity Model Council, launched February 5, 2026, lets users simultaneously query and compare outputs from multiple frontier LLMs — including GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3 Pro — side by side in one interface. It helps users evaluate nuanced differences in reasoning, tone, and accuracy across models without switching platforms, available to Perplexity Pro subscribers.

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Perplexity Pro

Research
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Paid

Perplexity Pro offers unlimited usage of GPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, and other top models for deep research and web reasoning.

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RAGFlow

Research
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Free

Open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation engine that combines deep document understanding with agentic capabilities to build production-grade chatbots and knowledge bases. Supports PDFs, Word, slides, images, and 30+ data sources with grounded citations and minimal hallucinations.

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ResearchPal

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Freemium

ResearchPal is an AI research assistant for academics that integrates literature discovery, literature review generation, in-text citation management, Zotero integration, and academic writing all in one workspace. It helps students, researchers, and professionals accelerate thesis writing and research workflows.

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