As an academic, we use several tools but nothing really integrated with AI. We work with all the existing separate tools: Zotero, Endnote, ChatGPT (and Consensus), Perplexity and Claude etc... but no single tool to get faster in bringing information together.
Finally, Afforai offers an AIO solution that seems designed by academics for academics (not only, of course, but I speak for my use case).
It perfectly does the job; we can go faster, be even more precise by working on your own text and books (epub is really a good option), and focus on our own research, which is what we want. It's also amazingly useful for building courses or student book chapters.
It's kind of a no-question deal for our job, well done ! It certainly does not our job, but it really improves it and let us concentrate on what is important.
It would be really perfect if we could definitly get rid of Zotero and similar tools by having a real bibliography tool (finding duplicates, etc.) and, of course, having a Word and/or Google Docs plugin, that is quite mandatory.