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Elicit
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TaglineAI research assistant for academic literature.OpenAI's browser agent. Clicks and types on websites for you.An agentic iPhone home screen that replaces your static icon grid with AI widgets that proactively surface health, calendar, finance, and local context — without you having to open a single app.Run any open-source AI model with an API call.
CategoryResearchAgentsAgentsDev Platform
PricingFree + $12-$42/moIncluded with ChatGPT Pro $200/moWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Pay per second of compute
Best forGrad students, researchers, anyone doing literature reviews.Power users willing to pay $200/mo for a browser bot.iPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Developers using open-source models (Flux, SDXL, Whisper, etc).
Strengths
  • Searches 125M+ papers
  • Extracts + synthesizes findings across papers
  • Systematic review workflow
  • Actually uses websites — fills forms, clicks, checks out
  • Built into ChatGPT
  • Good for repetitive web tasks
  • Ambient, proactive intelligence delivered via native iOS widgets — no app-switching required
  • Cross-domain context: health, calendar, email, finances, and local recommendations in one layer
  • Works within iOS permission model (no jailbreak or sideloading), making App Store approval plausible
  • Strong pre-launch signal: 25k+ waitlist and backing from a16z, True Ventures, and SV Angel
  • Tens of thousands of models (image, video, audio, LLMs)
  • One-line API for any model
  • Cog framework for custom model deploy
Weaknesses
  • Academic-only
  • Can hallucinate citations — verify everything
  • Slow vs doing it yourself
  • Breaks on complex auth flows
  • $200/mo gate
  • Still pre-launch / beta — zero proven track record and no public pricing yet
  • iPhone-only by design, which immediately locks out half the smartphone market
  • Battery drain and privacy concerns from constant ambient context scanning are real and unresolved
  • Cold starts on less-popular models
  • Pricing gets real at scale
Kai's verdictS-tier for academic research. Nothing else comes close for systematic reviews.B-tier. Still early. Manus is more flexible for less money.The concept is genuinely compelling — turning the home screen into a living AI layer is a smarter bet than yet another chat interface — but this is vaporware until it ships publicly and we see whether Apple's sandbox lets it breathe. (Verdict pending Phi's full review.)S-tier for open-source model APIs. The default in this space.
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