The efficiency of academic research has always been the focus of academic circles, and searching for relevant papers often consumes a lot of time and energy. Now, the emergence of the AI academic search engine Consensus provides a new solution to this problem. Consensus recently announced the completion of $11.5 million in Series A financing, which will further promote its development and provide researchers around the world with more convenient and efficient academic search services.
In the sea of academic research, finding that crucial paper is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But now, the AI academic search engine Consensus has announced the completion of an $11.5 million Series A round of financing, led by Union Square Ventures, and other well-known investors also participated, marking that Consensus will further help researchers and academic practitioners. .
Consensus is based on AI technology and is committed to allowing researchers to search for relevant academic papers faster and more accurately. It has a huge database of more than 200 million papers, covering all fields of science and academics, bringing users an unprecedented search experience.
Since its launch in the winter of 2022, Consensus has had more than 400,000 monthly active users and is expected to achieve an astonishing growth of 600% in 2024, with annualized revenue reaching US$1.5 million.
Consensus' search scope covers more than 200 million research papers. The data comes from the Semantic Scholar database, covers all fields of science, and is updated monthly.
Whether students, researchers, doctors, clinicians, or even health and fitness experts, Consensus provides the scientific evidence and research papers they need.
Consensus supports word search, concept association and question and answer search to meet the needs of different users.
Consensus uses a custom language model combined with metadata such as citation count and study design to re-rank search results to ensure the top 20 most relevant results are provided.
Similar to ChatGPT, Consensus Copilot can answer questions, draft content, create lists, and each result is linked to the corresponding research paper.
It provides search filters, paper-level insights, automatic citation generation and other functions, and integrates tools such as Zotero to improve research efficiency.
The success of Consensus’ Series A financing not only brought financial support to it, but also brought new vitality to the academic search field. As technology continues to advance and the user base expands, Consensus is expected to become an indispensable tool for academic researchers.
The successful financing and rapid development of Consensus heralds broad prospects for the application of AI technology in the field of academic research. Its convenient and efficient search functions will greatly improve research efficiency and inject new impetus into academic progress. In the future, we expect Consensus to bring more innovations and breakthroughs to the academic community.