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New Agentic Research Tool "STORM" by Stanford University
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A researcher at heart, Iāve tested most AI-powered research and knowledge curation tools such as Perplexity, Consensus, ChatGPT, Claude, and many more. Theyāre good, but not great. Lack of traceability. Hallucination. Bad writing style. Expensive. No fine-tuning. The list goes on.
In todayās episode, Iāll share a snapshot of āSTORMā with you, a research project and free alternative tool developed by Stanford University. Iāll share an example of how I use it and how it compares to my own manual research. Spoiler: STORM is next level!
What is STORM?
STORM is a research project by Stanford University and means āSynthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Askingā. Itās a LLM system that researches and writes Wikipedia-like articles from scratch based on Internet search.
STORM models the pre-writing stage by (1) discovering diverse perspectives in researching the given topic, (2) simulating conversations where writers carrying different perspectives pose questions to a topic expert grounded on trusted Internet sources, (3) curating the collected information to create an outline.
