OpenAI Introduces Deep Research in ChatGPT, an AI Agent That Can Conduct Multi-Step Research

OpenAI launched a brand new synthetic intelligence (AI) agent in ChatGPT on Sunday that may independently analysis on the Internet. Dubbed Deep Research (to not be confused with Google’s Gemini-powered AI agent with the identical identify), it could actually conduct multi-step analysis on complicated matters. The AI agency said that the AI agent is powered by one of many o3 AI fashions and is at the moment out there to the ChatGPT Pro customers, the corporate’s highest subscription tier. Notably, the announcement got here simply days after Google rolled out its Deep Research agent to the Gemini Android app.

OpenAI Introduces Deep Research AI Agent

In a blog post, the San Francisco-based AI agency detailed its newest agentic functionality in ChatGPT. Aimed at research-oriented duties, OpenAI says it could actually full duties that will take a human a number of hours in tens of minutes. Deep Research joins the corporate’s different AI agent dubbed Operator which may autonomously carry out duties on-line resembling reserving tickets, reserving a desk in a restaurant, or shopping for a product.

Deep Research in ChatGPT
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Highlighting when the AI agent may be helpful, the corporate mentioned that Deep Research is constructed for customers who do intensive research-based work in areas resembling finance, science, coverage, and engineering. It can be aimed toward customers preferring “hyper-personalised suggestions” on high-ticket purchases that typically require analysis resembling automobiles, furnishings, and residential home equipment.

ChatGPT Pro customers can discover the Deep Research button beneath the textual content subject subsequent to the Search icon. Users can kind their question and faucet on the icon to activate the AI agent. The agent will reply with a follow-up request, asking for particulars concerning the customers’ preferences and extra particulars about their necessities. Users may add a file to offer it with extra context.

After responding to the follow-up request, the AI agent will start researching, with a skinny bar exhibiting the progress. A sidebar may also seem with a abstract of the steps taken and sources used. The output can take between 5 to half-hour, and the consumer will get a complete report as soon as the analysis is completed.

Powered by a model of the o3 mannequin, the AI agent will use citations wherever data is taken from a specific supply. It may also use tables and sub-headings to make the report readable. OpenAI says within the subsequent few weeks, the corporate will add assist for pictures, information visualisation, and different analytic output in these reviews.

Currently, it is just out there to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, however the firm mentioned it would quickly be added to the Plus and Teams subscriptions. Notably, the Pro subscription is priced at $200 (roughly Rs. 17,500) a month.