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Source-Grounded Q&A

Answers based only on your uploaded PDFs, web pages, YouTube, and audio — every response includes traceable citations.

Key benefits

  • Answers use only your uploaded PDFs, web pages, YouTube, and audio
  • Every response includes traceable citations to the original passage
  • Reduces AI hallucinations by anchoring to your source library
  • Ideal for literature reviews, thesis writing, and fact-checking

How it works

  1. 1 Create a notebook and add sources from Drive, URLs, or local files
  2. 2 Ask questions in Chat — responses cite specific source passages
  3. 3 Click citation numbers to jump to the exact quote in your document
  4. 4 Compare multiple sources in one conversation with grounded synthesis

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