OpenAI Deep Research: the ChatGPT agent that researches the web for 5-30 minutes
In one sentence On 2 February 2025 OpenAI launched Deep Research in ChatGPT, an agent built on a version of o3 optimized for web browsing and data analysis: it works for 5 to 30 minutes to produce a report with citations and scores 26.6% on Humanity's Last Exam. Pro users first, 100 queries a month.
Doing thorough research on a complex topic takes hours: opening dozens of tabs, reading articles, comparing sources. Deep Research, launched by OpenAI on 2 February 2025 inside ChatGPT, tries to automate that work.
The user asks a complex question; the agent searches and reads sources on the web for 5 to 30 minutes and delivers a report with citations to its sources. At launch it is limited to Pro subscribers, with 100 queries a month; Plus and Team were announced as next, and the UK, Switzerland and the European Economic Area were initially excluded.
OpenAI itself warns that it can still make up facts and struggle to tell authoritative sources from unreliable ones: the citations need checking.
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