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The implications of this research are far-reaching and challenge conventional understanding of information processing.

Key findings: the model demonstrated emergent behavior not present in smaller versions.

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Key findings: the model demonstrated emergent behavior not present in smaller versions

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Frequently Asked Questions

smry is where you save what you mean to read. Paste any article, YouTube video, newsletter, or file and it lands in your library as clean, readable text. Summarize it to decide if it's worth your time, read it, listen with natural voices, highlight what matters, ask it questions, and export everything to Notion, Obsidian, or Markdown.

Yes! Select any text to highlight it in one of 5 colors, add notes, and organize your highlights. All highlights sync across devices for Pro users. You can also export your highlights to Notion, Obsidian, Markdown, or JSON.

Yes — smry can read any article aloud with natural AI voices. Choose from up to 10 voices, adjust playback speed, and follow along with word-by-word highlighting. Free users get 2 voices, Pro users unlock all 10.

Summaries are generated in seconds using AI. We cache summaries to provide instant results for articles that have been summarized before.

Yes. smry's interface is available in 6 languages: English, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Spanish, and Dutch. Use the language button on the landing page or the reader toolbar.

Yes, to ensure fair usage, there are rate limits: 20 summaries per day and 6 summaries per minute per IP address.

You have three options:
  1. Prepend smry.ai/ to any article URL. For example: smry.ai/news-site.com/article
  2. Paste a URL directly on smry.ai and we'll fetch it for you.
  3. Drag the bookmarklet on our homepage to your bookmarks bar; tapping it wraps whatever page you're on in smry.

smry works with most major publications, news sites, and blogs — over 1,000 sites are supported. Some sites with strict access restrictions may show partial content. We're constantly improving coverage.

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