Mastodawn

"Although GPT-4o hallucinates citations 78–90% of the time, OpenScholar achieves citation accuracy on par with human experts."

Now if only it wasn't boiling the oceans over.

"Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models", Asai et al. 2026 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10072-4

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Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models - Nature

A specialized, open-source, retrieval-augmented language model is introduced for answering scientific queries and synthesizing literature, the responses of which are shown to be preferred by human evaluations over expert-written answers.

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