YILA
Codex for research: real papers, editable figures, data chat
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YILA is the Codex for research: an AI research agent with paper databases and research skills built in, so there’s nothing to set up. Ask in plain words, and it searches real papers across OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv, Google Scholar and CNKI, writes literature reviews that link back to their sources, analyzes your data by running Python or R code you can inspect, and turns your work into editable figures, posters and slides that stay faithful to your papers.
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PH · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Education
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Education
- Science
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Yes The core is an LLM agent that queries public scholarly APIs (OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv) and generates cited reviews and charts, which a solo builder can wire together with standard tooling. Google Scholar and CNKI access is harder but can be done through partial or unofficial routes.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #37 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 351 days after the earliest competitor.
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