ChatGPT Deep Research is the game-changing AI agent I was waiting for

We were all expecting OpenAI to announce two new next-gen ChatGPT models on Friday to meet the self-imposed late January deadline. OpenAI delivered, unveiling its new o3-mini and o3-mini-high reasoning models. The o3 versions are already available to ChatGPT users, and the names are indeed getting out of hand here.

I mention product names before anything else because OpenAI surprised the world on Sunday with a product we were not expecting. Well, we didn't expect another AI agent to drop so soon after the Operator and o3-mini releases, though ChatGPT's new Deep Research AI agent is something any fan of AI products has been waiting for. I know I was.

It also sounds a lot like DeepSeek, the Chinese AI that rocked the tech world last week. And yes, Google has its own Deep Research feature built into Gemini Advanced, which works just like OpenAI's.

I often use ChatGPT for various research, telling the AI to find me complex information. I use it for work and personal projects that would otherwise involve multiple separate internet searches and a lot of time spent on different tabs to collect the data I need.

The basic version of ChatGPT (GPT-4o with ChatGPT Search abilities) can get the job done. But it's not always perfect. It might need massaging and repeat attempts. It's not always as thorough as I want it to be. Also, I still look at sources to check whether the AI has hallucinated certain things. That's where a better ChatGPT reasoning model could come in handy.

That's exactly what Deep Research is, and it's available now in ChatGPT. It's a reasoning model based on the unreleased o3 model, which takes longer to scour the web for accurate information. Deep Research then delivers everything into a larger report, which could be much more useful than anything GPT-4o can offer.

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