Imagine having a super-smart assistant that can dig up information from websites, read through it, filter out what’s important, and then give you a detailed report. That’s what OpenAI’s new tool, Deep Research, can do. It’s not just a regular chatbot – it’s like having a human researcher working for you.
Deep Research launched on February 2nd and is available to users who pay for ChatGPT’s premium services. For $20 a month, you get 10 uses. For $200 a month, you get 120 uses. That’s a lot of research power at your fingertips.
Here’s how it works: you give Deep Research a question, and it starts planning its search. It visits websites, picks out the important stuff, and puts it all into a report with stats, sources, and everything. It’s like having your own personal researcher.
Deep Research is pretty good at figuring out what’s trustworthy and what’s not. But it’s not perfect – it can still get fooled by fake news or struggle with showing when it’s not sure about something. Even so, some executives who’ve used it say it’s been a huge time-saver. Like, instead of spending 40 hours on a project, they can just review the AI’s work in an hour.
Real-World Results
Some people are already seeing big benefits from using Deep Research. Patrick Collison, the CEO of Stripe, tweeted that it had written six great reports for him. And Dean Ball, a policy researcher in Washington D.C., thinks it’s an example of how AI can really help policymakers understand complex issues.
OpenAI is planning to make Deep Research even more powerful – it wants to turn it into a full-time assistant that can write reports, create presentations, and even do advanced analysis. It might cost a lot – up to $20,000 a month – but it could be a game-changer for professionals who need to do heavy research.
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