What changed
AskChem converts 147,000 papers into 2.4 million typed claims linked to DOIs and evidence locations. Its live interface supports text and structure search, contradiction discovery, anonymous REST access and MCP integration for AI agents.
Why it matters
Research tools become more useful when retrieval returns inspectable claims and provenance rather than another ranked list of papers or an unsupported synthesis.
What to do
Prototype a chemistry assistant with the anonymous API and require every answer to return the claim, DOI and supporting evidence location together.
Caveat
The published benchmark contains only 30 creator-run questions. Claims are machine-extracted and still need verification, and the full platform source code is not public.