Sapien the AI assistant dedicated to academic excellence

  • Access GPT-4.1, o3, Claude 4, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro, Ollama and more
  • AI-enhanced research workspaces for writing and organizing
  • Realtime audio chat
  • All data is stored locally on your device
  • All responses backed by actual academic papers
  • Semantic search of your documents and Zotero library

Sapien's Capabilities

AI Chat

Sapien is an AI-driven chatbot engineered to revolutionise how academics, researchers, and students interact with the vast universe of knowledge.

Sapien's chat interface provides a user experience similar to other AI chatbots but with a few key enhancements:

  • One interface to access the top publicly available generative AI models or your own self-hosted ones! You can choose which model powers a chat, including changing models mid-chat to take advantage of the different capabilities of each model.

  • Realtime audio chat

  • All responses backed by actual academic papers

  • Semantic search of your documents and Zotero library


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Research Spaces

Write your next paper with SapienAI's Research Spaces. Research Spaces are dedicated workspaces for you to upload your project documents and files. An integrated editor allows you to write and edit documents, and the chat interface allows you to ask questions about your documents, summarise them, and more. All uploaded documents are summarised based on the instructions you provide and are semantically indexed, allowing you to easily find information.

  • Streamline your writing: Our integrated editor lets you write with as little or as much AI assistance as you desire. Keep it simple and write using Markdown or other text-based formats, or leverage our integrated support for Typst and LaTex for a richer writing experience.

  • Organise your research: Keep all your notes, sources, and drafts in one intelligent, interconnected space. All uploaded documents can be semantically searched, and AI-powered literature reviews can be exported in Word and Excel format.


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Zotero

Connect your Zotero Account to unlock natural language search over your library items.

SapienAI responds with the backing of relevant academic papers from Semantic Scholar's database of over 215 million papers.


Host Sapien Yourself

While the final touches are being added to access Sapien directly online, you can get advanced access by self-hosting a beta version.

Benefits of self-hosting:

Clutch

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Running Sapien locally using Docker is simple, flexible and provides fast, consistent use.

Data security

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Self-hosting ensures that all data is stored on your device. The only time information leaves your system is to get responses from the LLM endpoints (unless using Ollama in which case nothing leaves your device!).

Control

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You remain in charge of LLMs used and hosting methods. Use your local models with Ollama or access the latest models from OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Google or Amazon.

Community & support

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Join our vibrant community forums for troubleshooting, sharing ideas and opportunities to contribute to the application's development.

University or educational institute looking for a safe and secure self-hostable AI solution?

Self-hosting SapienAI in your cloud or on-premises is straightforward

Maximise data sovereignty by using models and storing data in your jurisdiction and cloud environment

SapienAI is highly scalable and has been tested in all the popular cloud environments (and on bare metal)

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