Here’s Chatgpt’s new agent that can do research for you

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 organising those sources for you in a comprehensive report. Once prompted, Deep Research can work 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 generate a report within 5 to 30 minutes.

According to OpenAI, the same work would take humans hours. 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. 

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. 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. 

Because of the computing power required to run the Deep Research feature, only ChatGPT Pro users can access it at the moment. The $200-per-month subscription includes access to up to 100 queries of an optimized version and other perks such as unlimited access to ChatGPT and Sora and access to Operator, its AI agent feature that can carry out basic browser tasks like reservations.