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Digital Science Acquires Jenni AI, Bringing 8 Million Users
Digital Science acquired Jenni AI, a research-writing platform used by more than 8 million students and researchers in 189 countries. The companies plan to connect Jenni with Dimensions, Digital Science’s database of 171 million research pu
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More than 8 million students and researchers in 189 countries use Jenni AI, the research-writing platform Digital Science acquired on October 29, 2026. The deal gives Digital Science a writing tool with an established international user base and a planned connection to its scholarly research database, Dimensions. Digital Science says the integration will begin over the coming months; it has not described the connection as already complete.
Jenni’s next step: Dimensions
Dimensions contains 171 million research publications, according to Digital Science. The company plans to bring its research data and full-text search capabilities into Jenni to help users discover scholarly literature, understand sources and check citations. The stated aim is to ground the sources Jenni users find and cite in the published research record.
Jenni already lets users upload papers or import reference libraries, explore sources, draft and refine writing, and check citations against original material. Digital Science casts the acquisition as a way to connect those writing tasks with its research data. Stephen Leicht, CEO of Digital Science, said the company wants to address a weakness he sees in general-purpose AI tools:
Researchers already use AI as a matter of routine. What they can’t get from a general-purpose tool is a citation that has been checked against the actual paper.
Stephen Leicht, CEO of Digital Science
Leicht added that, inside Digital Science, sources suggested by Jenni can be verified against Dimensions. That describes the intended product relationship, not a feature the announcement says is already available. Checking that a citation matches a paper can help readers trace evidence, but it does not by itself establish who wrote a passage or whether the passage accurately interprets its source.
Jenni stays a standalone product
Digital Science says Jenni will keep its name, team, pricing and subscription plans after the acquisition. The company has not announced a product merger or changes for current subscribers. It also did not state a purchase price in its announcement.
Jenni joins Overleaf, Papers AI and ReadCube in Digital Science’s research-tools portfolio. The company describes Overleaf as a collaborative LaTeX writing platform, ReadCube as an AI-powered reference-management product and Papers AI as a tool combining data, analysis and writing. Jenni adds a writing assistant focused on academic research and citation workflows to that group.
Park’s case for AI-assisted research
David Park, CEO of Jenni AI, framed the acquisition as an effort to support researchers’ work rather than replace it. “We started Jenni with the belief that the future is written with AI, not by AI,” he said. Park added that joining Digital Science would give researchers access to knowledge and tools as they develop and publish their work.
Digital Science says the acquisition will strengthen its relationships with master’s and PhD students early in their careers, while Jenni’s planned Dimensions connection extends the company’s research data into an AI-assisted writing workflow. The practical test is whether that connection makes sources easier to find and citations easier to verify without obscuring how researchers used the material. For now, the concrete commitments are continued standalone operation and an integration planned for the coming months.