OpenAI Introduces Deep Research: A New AI Agent for Complex Research

OpenAI has launched Deep Research, a powerful new capability in ChatGPT that independently conducts multi-step web research on complex topics.

Designed to synthesize vast amounts of online information, Deep Research can generate detailed reports in minutes—tasks that would typically take humans HOURS to complete.

Currently available to Pro users, this feature will soon be extended to Plus and Team users before reaching Enterprise customers.

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Deep Research is “built for people who do intensive knowledge work in areas like financesciencepolicy, and engineering and need thorough, precise, and reliable research,” says OpenAI.

However, it can be equally valuable for savvy shoppers seeking highly personalized recommendations on major purchases like cars, appliances, and furniture. 

Designed to handle in-depth research, it provides well-documented outputs with clear citations and a transparent breakdown of its reasoning, making it easy to verify and reference. It excels at uncovering niche, non-obvious info that would typically require sifting through multiple websites. 

Key Points

  • Deep Research is an AI agent that searches, analyzes, and synthesizes information from hundreds of online sources.
  • Built for professionals, it excels in generating well-documented reports for complex knowledge work.
  • Works in ChatGPT by selecting “Deep Research” in the message composer and submitting queries, with outputs appearing in chat within 5 to 30 minutes.
  • Right now, deep research can access the open web and any uploaded files. 
  • This new AI agent can sometimes hallucinate facts in outputs or make inaccurate inferences. 
  • Currently available for Pro users, with Plus and Team access coming next, followed by Enterprise.
  • A more cost-effective version with higher rate limits will be released in the future.

Key Quotes

“Deep research independently discovers, reasons about, and consolidates insights from across the web.”

“Deep research frees up valuable time by allowing you to offload and expedite complex, time-intensive web research with just one query.”

“Deep research marks a significant step toward our broader goal of developing AGI, which we have long envisioned as capable of producing novel scientific research.”

“Compared to deep research, GPT-4o is ideal for real-time, multimodal conversations.”

“In an internal evaluation of expert-level tasks across a range of areas, deep research was rated by domain experts to have automated multiple hours of difficult, manual investigation.”

“We anticipate releasing deep research to Plus users in about a month.”


Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research/

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