Deep Research, a new AI-powered representative within ChatGPT that individually conducts in-depth internet research, explores data, and compiles reports, completing tasks that may get humans hours or even days.
The application, available now for Pro people, is designed for specialists in finance, research, plan, and engineering, as well as anyone looking for” thorough, detailed, and reliable research”, according to OpenAI’s Feb. 2 news.
China-based DeepSeek is flipping the script on AI economics, claiming it can fit ChatGPT’s knowledge without the heavy price tag. This comes at a time of growing opposition in AI study.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hyped the tool on Twitter, calling it “like a superpower, experts on demand”!
After nearly giving up manually searching, Altman shared a personal use case in which Deep Research assisted him in finding a rare NSX car in Japan.
Users can access Deep Research by selecting it in ChatGPT’s message composer, inputting a query, and attaching files or spreadsheets for additional context.
In the interim, the AI analyzes hundreds of sources over the course of five to thirty minutes, displays a sidebar describing its research procedure, and finally releases a fully cited report.
Despite its advanced capabilities, Deep Research isn’t without its quirks.
OpenAI acknowledges that the model” can occasionally hallucinate facts or draw incorrect conclusions” and struggles to distinguish between reliable sources of information from misinformation.
Currently, Pro users can access 100 queries per month, with Plus and Team users expected to get access next, followed by Enterprise customers.
Apparently, OpenAI is developing a faster, more affordable version to increase the query limits for paid users.
To bolster its case, OpenAI pointed to Deep Research’s performance on Humanity’s Last Exam, an AI benchmark testing expert-level knowledge across 100+ fields.
Deep Research’s o3 model scored 26.6 % accuracy, far surpassing DeepSeek-R-1’s 9.4 % and even OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which managed only 3.3 %.
The timing of OpenAI’s launch is no coincidence — last December, Google rolled out its own” Deep Research” feature for its Gemini AI model for Gemini Advanced users.
The AI industry giants are currently at odds with one another to define the upcoming era of autonomous, AI-driven knowledge discovery, which is a long cry from the chatbot era that brought it all.
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