OpenAI gives ChatGPT new web research skills

OpenAI gives ChatGPT new web research skills. ChatGPT is getting a new deep research mode that will let users ask the chatbot to perform “multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks,” OpenAI announced Sunday.

OpenAI has added a new ‘deep research’ mode to ChatGPT, allowing users to perform multi-step research on the web for more complex tasks. Notably, Deep Research is OpenAI’s second AI agent, following the launch of Operator AI for browser-related tasks last month.

What is deep research? How it work?

Deep Research is powered by OpenAI’s latest o3 reasoning model, optimised for web browsing and data analysis. The latest AI agent searches, interprets and analyses vast amounts of text, images and PDFs on the web to produce a comprehensive report that is close to the level of a research analyst, OpenAI claims.

Why it matters: It’s another step toward fulfillment of the AI industry’s promise that AI agents  will soon be able to perform human tasks reliably, efficiently and independently.

What they’re saying: “Deep research is built for people who do intensive knowledge work in areas like finance, science, policy, and engineering and need thorough, precise, and reliable research,” OpenAI said in a blog post

• “It can be equally useful for discerning shoppers looking for hyper-personalized recommendations on purchases that typically require careful research, like cars, appliances, and furniture.”
• “What you get from deep research is a comprehensive, fully cited research paper, essentially something that an analyst or an expert in a field might produce to you,” OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen said on a live-streamed demo of the new tool.

OpenAI gives ChatGPT new web research skills

Yes, but: OpenAI also warns that deep research “can sometimes hallucinate facts in responses or make incorrect inferences,” though it does so less than other ChatGPT models.

• Deep research also has trouble distinguishing rumors from fact, and “often fail[s] to convey uncertainty accurately.”

Deep research will initially be made available to OpenAI’s $200/month Pro customers.

• The company says it expects to expand the rollout to include $20/month Plus users within about a month, “if all safety checks continue to meet our release standards.”

• Deep research “is currently very compute intensive,” OpenAI warns, and it can take from 5 to 30 minutes per task.

The big picture: The release of deep research follows fast on the heels of OpenAI’s release of its operator agent which can act on behalf of users within a web browser to order products and reserve tickets.

• In the future, OpenAI said in a blog post, “the combination of deep research, which can perform asynchronous online investigation, and Operator, which can take real-world action, will enable ChatGPT to carry out increasingly sophisticated tasks for you.”

With Thanks and Reference to: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/chatgpt-gets-deep-research-mode-as-openai-doubles-down-on-ai-agents/ar-AA1yiyZn and https://www.axios.com/2025/02/02/chatgpt-deep-research-openai-agents