Many of the AI scholarly literature search tools include features for summarizing the search results and uploading PDFs to be summarized. These tools do not search literature, but will summarize items like documents and videos:
Zotero does not yet have free AI tools built in, but there are a number of ways to connect other AI tools to your citation collecting in Zotero.
Using an AI assistant browser extension, such as Perplexity AI Companion or Sider AI sidebar, can generate a quick summary of key points on a webpage, which can be copied and pasted into a note attached to the citation item once you save it in Zotero.
The open-pdf Zotero add-on can help connect the AI summarization and chatbot features of PDFgear to PDFs in your Zotero library. Add any notes taken in your PDF to Zotero automatically by choosing "Add note from annotations" in Zotero's right click menu.
The following add-ons can also connect paid ChatGPT access to a Zotero library:
