What is SurfSense
SurfSense is an AI-powered research and knowledge management assistant that integrates with various tools to help users efficiently manage, search, and interact with their documents. It aims to be an open-source alternative to NotebookLM for teams, allowing users to connect LLMs to internal knowledge sources and chat with them in real-time.
Features of SurfSense
- Connects to tools like Notion, GitHub, Slack, and more.
- Enables efficient management, searching, and chatting with documents.
- Generates podcasts from content.
- Performs hybrid search (combining vector and keyword search).
- Offers RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) APIs.
- Supports integration with over 100 leading LLMs.
- Allows on-premise local LLM inference via vLLM, Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, and others.
- Facilitates real-time collaboration on documents.
- Enables adding comments directly to chats and documents.
- Supports creating podcasts and multimedia for team feedback.
Use Cases of SurfSense
- Teams can use it as a collaborative AI-powered knowledge hub.
- Users can centralize knowledge and resources for instant information retrieval.
- It can be used to streamline workflows and accelerate decision-making.
- Facilitates seamless collaboration with real-time tools.
- Enables users to chat with their documents and internal knowledge sources.
- Allows for the generation of fast, high-quality podcasts from content.
- Provides cited answers across company and personal knowledge.
Pricing
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