Assistant Improvements: Fact-Checks, Citation Popups, Applied Settings

Hey there.

I'm Drew Barontini, VP of Product at Scite, and I want to walk you through some new improvements that we've made to the Assistant experience.

So inside of Assistant here I'm going to click on a recent conversation I had where I asked, does trisomy increase the rate of chromosome segregation?

I'm using some custom assistant settings for this session and you can see that there's now this fact check information, which typically only showed during the Assistant response while the assistant was searching through all the literature, building a search strategy, verifying or rejecting sources.

But now we're actually keeping this persisted on your Assistant responses.

So you can see what sources were verified and why, and what sources were rejected and why.

And then you can collapse this and this will stay alongside your Assistant response to continue to validate what was used and what sort of information was used to generate that response.

Another change I want to talk about is hovering on these citation pop ups.

You can now click and drag these around and get this collapsed or expanded state that you can also close and you can move this wherever you want.

So as you're doing research, maybe you want to select a couple of these that are relevant and keep them close together and scroll around.

You can expand these, you can move them around.

You can see a lot of information that we've redesigned to improve legibility and accessibility of information.

And you can even click in here to see why was this specific reference selected, which is similar to the fact check information.

Now I can close these and you can go further down so I can show you one more change here at the bottom.

So underneath being able to copy the clipboard, share the session link, or regenerate your response, you can now see that the model that you used for this specific query as well as any applied settings.

So this one just used the default settings, but it did use a different model.

So it's going to show that information.

I asked another follow up question here related to the above question.

Got my fact check information here.

So you can see which ones were verified and rejected.

And then at the bottom here you're going to see that the model that was used for this one was GPT 5.2 and I made a couple of changes to the applied settings.

So the number of references and the reasoning effort.

Now you can continue to make these changes and they will show for each of the individual assistant responses.

You're going to see what changed and you're going to get better understanding around what settings you changed.

On individual Assistant responses, you're going to get more information about what sources were chosen and why.

The Assistant strategy trying to be more transparent and share all that information so you can make sure you're doing those fact checks and understand where everything came from to help you in your research.