Asta

Name: Asta
Author: Semantic Scholar

Detects papers and lets you chat with AI, grounded in the actual content. A scientific research tool powered by Asta from Ai2.

As of June 2026, Asta has 164 users in the Productivity category.

Semantic Scholar Productivity

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Users+13.1%

164

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Version

0.1.2

Manifest V3

History

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Tracking since Apr 9, 2026.

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Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
Apr 9, 2026	145	—	—	0.1.2
Apr 20, 2026	146	—	—	0.1.2
Apr 25, 2026	153	—	—	0.1.2
May 2, 2026	154	—	—	0.1.2
May 9, 2026	151	—	—	0.1.2
May 13, 2026	158	—	—	0.1.2
May 19, 2026	168	—	—	0.1.2
May 29, 2026	163	—	—	0.1.2
Jun 7, 2026	162	—	—	0.1.2
Now	164	—	—	0.1.2

Permissions & access

Permissions: contextMenusstorage
Host access: https://api.semanticscholar.org/*, https://asta-tools.allen.ai/*

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About

AI responses are powered by Asta (https://allenai.org/asta), which provides answers grounded in real content inside the paper—including figures. Ask follow-up questions to dive deeper. Asta is a scientific research tool offered to the general public at no cost that leverages a corpus of 108M+ abstracts and 12M+ full-text papers to accelerate scientific research broadly.

Figure understanding is designed to support all scientists—including those who are blind or low-vision. This capability is experimental, and your usage helps Ai2 researchers understand how to improve it to better serve the public interest and create benchmarks grounded in real-world usage.

Works across the web—from academic search engines like Google Scholar to raw hosted PDFs. No need to copy-paste; the extension detects papers automatically.

Free to use for academic and scientific research.

Open-source fork of the popular Scite extension, modified to use Asta. Source code: https://github.com/allenai/asta-extension