Stanford's free STORM tool generates full cited research articles from scratch
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-09-30
Stanford built STORM, a free open-source tool that writes Wikipedia-style long-form articles from scratch: give it a topic, it researches the web and returns a full report with sections, subsections, and citations on every claim — not a chatbot answer.
The key insight is fixing the questions before writing:
- It studies similar articles to find every angle worth covering
- It spawns multiple expert "perspectives" on the topic
- It simulates writer-expert conversations grounded in real web sources
- Follow-up questions keep getting sharper
- It builds a full outline, then writes the article citing every source
The author argues this beats asking ChatGPT directly because most AI research fails from bad questions — STORM's multi-perspective dialogue solves that.
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