Forbes February 3, 2025
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, caught the entire AI market by surprise, and no one more so than OpenAI. Its ChatGPT-like model R1 received raving reviews with a fraction of the development cost. President Trump called it a “wake-up” call for the entire American tech industry. Now, just days later, OpenAI is striking back: yesterday, the company released a new agentic capability: Deep Research.
This new model, accessible through a button on the ChatGPT app and website (available to Pro users only, for now), can arguably accomplish multi-faceted online research, analyzing, synthesizing, and interpreting massive amounts of varying data types (text, graphs, PDFs and more) in 5 to 30 minutes, compared to hours or days of work by a human....