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Consensus, an AI-enabled academic search engine for scientific research, raised $11.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Union Square Ventures.

Consensus是一个支持人工智能的科学研究学术搜索引擎，在联合广场风险投资（Union Square Ventures）领导的a系列融资回合中筹集了1150万美元。

Perplexity lead investors Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman participated in the round alongside former Seed investors Kevin Carter, Draper Associates, Alumni Ventures and Path Ventures.

困惑首席投资者丹尼尔·格罗斯（DanielGross）和纳特·弗里德曼（NatFriedman）与前种子投资者凯文·卡特（KevinCarter）、德雷珀联合公司（Draper Associates）、校友风险投资公司（Aluminant Ventures）和Path风险投资公司（Path Ventures）。

WHAT IT DOES

它的功能

The company is building an AI-powered search engine to make scientific research papers discoverable, consumable and accessible.

该公司正在建立一个人工智能支持的搜索引擎，以使科学研究论文可发现、可消费和可访问。

The user provides a prompt with a question to the AI and then receives literature with answers pertaining to the inquiry. It also synthesizes insights across literature and extracts information related to the specific research found, such as sample size and population.

用户向AI提供一个问题提示，然后收到带有与查询有关的答案的文献。它还综合了文献中的见解，并提取了与所发现的特定研究相关的信息，例如样本量和人口。

Boston-based Consensus will use the funds to expand its workforce, invest in growth experiments and speed up product development.

总部位于波士顿的Consensus将利用这些资金扩大员工队伍，投资于增长实验并加快产品开发。

'We deeply value research and evidence, but we've never had the skills nor attention span to comb through the research ourselves. We wanted to apply our backgrounds in consumer tech to scientific research, and try to make this amazing content more accessible and consumable, no matter your background,' Consensus CEO Eric Olson said in a statement..

“我们非常重视研究和证据，但我们从未拥有自己梳理研究的技能和注意力。Consensus首席执行官埃里克·奥尔森（EricOlson）在一份声明中说：“我们希望将我们在消费技术方面的背景应用于科学研究，并努力使这一令人惊叹的内容更容易获得和消费，无论你的背景如何。”。。

MARKET SNAPSHOT

市场快照

Other companies using AI to sift through scientific research include Dimensions, which offers linked research data and AI applications intended to accelerate research discovery.

其他使用人工智能筛选科学研究的公司包括Dimensions，它提供链接的研究数据和人工智能应用程序，旨在加速研究发现。

Semantic Scholar offers a free AI-enabled research tool for scientific literature aimed at helping researchers extract meaning and identify connections between papers.

语义学者为科学文献提供了一个免费的人工智能研究工具，旨在帮助研究人员提取意义并识别论文之间的联系。

Tags: Consensus, scientific research

标签：共识，科学研究

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