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It's using the gemini 2.5 flash lite model, but you can run it yourself[1] and switch to 2.5 pro for better results.\n\nHappy to answer any questions or take suggestions on how I can improve it!\n\n1. https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fmontanaflynn\u002Fasxiv",{"problem":47,"audience":53,"pricing":54,"motivation":60,"time_to_build":64,"stack":72,"openness":83,"stage":84,"team_size":85},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Helps understand research papers by asking questions about them","maker",[51],{"id":52},"post",null,{"value":55,"source":49,"evidence":56},"Free to use on the site",[57],{"id":58,"by":11,"text":59},"45336489","Very cool! I chose gemini for two reasons; the first being it supported pdf input and the second the flash lite model being very cheap so I could comfortably make it public and…",{"value":61,"source":49,"evidence":62},"Built to help understand papers the maker was interested in",[63],{"id":52},{"value":65,"source":49,"evidence":66},"About a day",[67,68],{"id":52},{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"45305824","matt1","I think you might be getting the two projects mixed up. Emergent Mind, my tool, has been in the works for over two years. If that's the interface you're referring to, thank you.…",[73,77],{"value":74,"source":49,"evidence":75},"Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite model",[76],{"id":52},{"value":78,"source":49,"evidence":79},"PDF.js viewer",[80],{"id":81,"by":11,"text":82},"45336563","Possibly. I had to kind of be very specific to get the model to link to the pages in a specific format my frontend can parse and then interact with the pdf viewer[1]. It seems…","open_source","launched","unknown",{"praise":87,"objections":107,"requests":122,"questions":141,"alternatives":153},[88,99],{"value":89,"source":90,"evidence":91},"Impressive for a day's work","commenter",[92,95],{"id":93,"by":70,"text":94},"45296726","Impressive project, especially for a day's work! My site, https:\u002F\u002Fwww.emergentmind.com, is similar, though I'm two years in :) I've found Gemini 2.5 Flash is the best model in…",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"45305518","beng-nl","I’m amazed, the interface is pretty complete and slick for a days work - then again I’m not a WebDev so I’d do it a dumb way.. Curious how this was made..",{"value":100,"source":90,"evidence":101},"Nice, slick interface",[102,103],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"45294848","ozgrakkurt","Super cool project! Didn’t expect it to be this good tbh",[108,115],{"value":109,"source":90,"evidence":110},"LLM struggles to explain equations beyond the paper",[111],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"45300489","bArray","It's a nice project, but the LLM itself seems to struggle with actually comprehending the subjects. It can point me very well to parts of the paper, but it could not explain…",{"value":116,"source":90,"evidence":117},"Does not handle arXiv IDs with a forward slash",[118],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"45296422","codebje","It looks like it doesn't handle ArXiv IDs that have a forward slash in them, eg, https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002Fcs\u002F0211011 as viewed at https:\u002F\u002Fasxiv.org\u002Fpdf\u002Fcs\u002F0211011 is a 404 error.",[123,130,134],{"value":124,"source":90,"evidence":125},"Render markdown and LaTeX in output",[126],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"45299741","APNPucky","Very interesting, I still need to test it more, but it seems like it parses only the arxiv PDF data. For getting more accurate equations it might be a good idea to download the…",{"value":131,"source":90,"evidence":132},"Use TeX source when available",[133],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},{"value":135,"source":90,"evidence":136},"Highlight specific parts of the page",[137],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"45296152","ks2048","Nice that it will link to specific pages. I wonder if it could be made to highlight specific parts of a page (i.e. highlight the exact thing I am looking for)?",[142],{"value":143,"source":90,"evidence":144},"How does it differ from alphaxiv",[145,149],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"45295691","phamtrongthang","Hi. Cool project! But I wonder what is the different between this and alphaxiv.org?",{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"45299784","SweetSoftPillow","Have you tried https:\u002F\u002Fwww.alphaxiv.org before inventing your thing?",[154,159],{"value":155,"source":90,"evidence":156},"alphaxiv",[157,158],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},{"value":160,"source":90,"evidence":161},"Emergent Mind",[162],{"id":93,"by":70,"text":94},{"comments":164,"answered":34,"key":165},10,[166,169,172],{"id":167,"text":168},"45351126","Thank you, this has been fixed!",{"id":170,"text":171},"45336441","I hadn't, but at a glance it seems more of a community that an AI tool?",{"id":173,"text":174},"45336472","Thank you, that's probably correct. I think the gemini api might turn the pages into images and use those. 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