NotebookLM, Elicit, Consensus, and Perplexity Are Not Competing for the Same Research Job

This article clarifies that various AI research tools like NotebookLM, Elicit, Consensus, and Perplexity do not compete for the same job, but rather serve different stages of a research workflow. Perplexity is useful for initial topic mapping, while Elicit is more suitable for finding and screening academic papers.