OpenAI unveils new ‘Deep research’ mode for ChatGPT

Published 03/02/2025, 01:30
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Investing.com-- OpenAI unveiled a new mode for ChatGPT on Sunday evening which lets the chatbot perform complex, multi-step research on the internet.

The AI start-up unveiled the new mode- called Deep Research- in a livestream, stating that the mode was another step towards “agentic AI,” which are expected to perform human tasks. 

A major point touted by OpenAI was that the model will not have latency constraints, meaning that it will have real-time access to data on the internet, although this will also mean that the model will take longer to respond to prompts. 

“We think it is important for our models to start doing autonomous tasks for much longer in an unsupervised way,” OpenAI developers said on a livestream, claiming that it was progress towards the company’s goal of delivering artificial general intelligence- a hypothetical type of AI that can learn and understand any intellectual task at the same capacity as a human. 

OpenAI claimed that the model will be useful for individuals doing knowledge-intensive work, and can be used across a variety of fields, including engineering, finance, literature, and biology. 

The model will initially be available on OpenAI’s $200-a-month Pro users, and will eventually be rolled out to the $20–a-month Plus tier if it meets safety requirements within a month. 

OpenAI said that the model demanded high levels of computing power, and could take from between 5 minutes to 30 minutes for a task, depending on the complexity of its inputs.

The start-up said that the model will document its output with clear citations and will also outline its reasoning. But Deep Research is still prone to hallucinating, albeit at a lower rate than other ChatGPT models, OpenAI said. 

Deep Research comes just days after OpenAI released o3 mini- a new, leaner reasoning AI model. The model’s release was likely fast-tracked in response to China’s DeepSeek R1 model- a model that appeared to match similar offerings from OpenAI and its rivals while using slower hardware and a substantially smaller budget.

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