What’s better than an AI chatbot that can assist you with tasks? One that can do them for you. OpenAI continues to build out its AI agents in ChatGPT with the launch of Deep Research.
Deep Research
On Sunday, OpenAI unveiled Deep Research, an AI agent that can conduct multi-step research for you by pulling a robust amount of information from the web and synthesizing those sources for you in a comprehensive report. Once prompted, Deep Research can work entirely independently; it’s like having a research analyst at your command.
Powering Deep Research is a version of the OpenAI o3 model optimized for web browsing and data analysis. By leveraging o3’s advanced reasoning capabilities, it can search and interpret massive amounts of content from the web, including texts, images, and more, and then output it in a report targeted to your needs.
Each report is generated in five to 30 minutes, depending on the task at hand. However, you can work on other tasks during that time, optimizing your workflow productivity. The finished report is output in the chat. In the weeks to come, the agent will also include images, data visualizations, and more.
According to OpenAI, the same work would take humans hours. Furthermore, the agent is meant to be particularly good at finding niche information that would require humans to perform multiple searches.
According to OpenAI, the target audience for Deep Research includes those who do intensive knowledge work in finance, science, policy, and engineering — and who need reliable, thorough research. Every report includes clear citations and a summary of the agent’s thinking so that users can double-check the information for themselves.
Double-checking a chatbot’s responses is generally good practice, as chatbots are prone to hallucinations. In particular, OpenAI warns that Deep Research “can sometimes hallucinate facts in responses or make incorrect inferences, though at a notably lower rate than existing ChatGPT models, according to internal evaluations.” OpenAI also added that the agent can struggle to distinguish authoritative information from rumors and can fail to convey uncertainty correctly, highlighting the need for human review.
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