OpenAI’s surprise new o3-powered ‘Deep Research’ mode shows the power of the AI agent era

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February 3, 2025 8:03 AM

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In case you missed it in favor of the Grammy Awards last night, OpenAI surprised the world late Sunday evening with the announcement of its new “Deep Research” modality, an AI agent available to ChatGPT Pro subscription plan ($200/month) users that’s designed to save humans hours by researching, well, “deeply” and expansively across the web for given topics and compiling professional quality reports across specialized domains from business to science, medicine, marketing and more.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, described the feature in a series of posts on his personal account on the social network X as “like a superpower; experts on demand!” He added, “It is really good, and can do tasks that would take hours/days and cost hundreds of dollars.”

Deep Research builds on OpenAI’s O Series of reasoning models, specifically leveraging the soon-to-be-released full o3 model (a smaller and less powerful model, o3-mini, was just launched on Friday). The full o3 model can analyze vast amounts of information and integrate text, PDFs, and images into a cohesive analysis.

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