Last month, I spent four hours trying to synthesize literature on transformer attention mechanisms for a grant proposal. I had 40 PDFs open, three broken citation managers, and a headache. On paper, AI should fix this exact workflow—either by finding the papers for you or by being smart enough to process them all at once. That's the pitch behind both Elicit and GLM 5.2, but they take completely different paths to get there.
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Last month, I was running a project that required spinning up dozens of automated coding agents to refactor a massive monolithic codebase. Within 48 hours, my OpenAI bill had shot past $300. Claude So
I was deep in a literature review last month, juggling 14 different PDFs across two monitors, and I kept hitting the same wall. I'd feed a 40-page paper into my usual model, ask a specific question ab
# How to Use Elicit for Academic Research: A Practical Tutorial I’ve spent the last six months using Elicit daily for my literature reviews, and I can tell you—it’s a game-changer for finding and syn