MIT Technology Review February 3, 2025
Rhiannon Williams

In just minutes, Deep Research can produce reports that would take humans “tens of hours” to complete.

OpenAI has launched a new agent capable of conducting complex, multistep online research into everything from scientific studies to personalized bike recommendations at what it claims is the same level as a human analyst.

The tool, called Deep Research, is powered by a version of OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model that’s been optimized for web browsing and data analysis. It can search and analyze massive quantities of text, images, and PDFs to compile a thoroughly researched report.

OpenAI claims the tool represents a significant step toward its overarching goal of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) that matches (or surpasses) human performance. It says that...

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