Q: Can you compare your system to Perplexity AI?
I have been checking it out and it seems very interesting, but I know your system has some features that are missing in Perplexity.

Alec_Afforai
Jun 13, 2024A: Hi PrestoMac, Alec, co-founder of Afforai here. Thank you for reaching out. I'll be happy to address your question.
Personally, big fan of Perplexity. But I know they are trying to replace Google. Which is inherently a different mission from us at Afforai. My mission is to create specialized tools to enhance researchers.
That philosophy shapes what Afforai is today. Afforai is a reference manager with AI features infused into it in a way that makes sense, and not just slapping the word AI onto it.
You can check here for detailed comparisons of Afforai to other products:
https://afforai.com/comparisons
Have a good one!
Hi PrestoMac,
Alec here. I made Afforai for myself and those with higher-level research needs.
Our tool developed on a few things to help with people with heavy knowledge work needs:
- Our document viewer side by side with the chatbot.
-The ability to dynamically change what documents a chatbot is connected to.
- Managing multiple chatbots and documents
- The total number of documents connected to a chatbot can exceed
100k tokens
- Ability to upload URLs and Google Search mode
- Afforai provides data citations with every answer given by the Al.
Meaning that with the research materials you uploaded to interact with Afforai, it will highlight the page and the paragraph of the papers where Afforai got the answer from.
This is to remove the guess-work and forever wondering where the Al got the information from or that it's hallucinating.
Thank you for the question and let me know if there's anything else I can answer.
Alec.
This is my question too as of today in June of 2024. I understand you weren't familiar with Perplexity when you answered previously, you should definitely know more about it today and I'd still be interested in your answer.
Yup, answered it :))