OpenAI’s Deep Research can save you hours of work – and now it’s a lot cheaper to access

What’s higher than an AI chatbot that may help you with duties? One that may do them for you. OpenAI continues to construct out its AI brokers in ChatGPT with the launch of Deep Analysis. 

Deep Analysis

Earlier this month, OpenAI unveiled Deep Analysis, an AI agent that may conduct multi-step analysis for you by pulling a strong quantity of data from the net and synthesizing these sources for you in a complete report. As soon as prompted, Deep Analysis can work totally independently; it is like having a analysis analyst at your command. 

At launch, it was solely accessible to ChatGPT Professional customers, that means you would need to pay $200 per 30 days. Now, Deep Analysis is rolling out to extra paid subscribers, together with ChatGPT Plus, Group, Edu, and Enterprise customers. Nevertheless, the added customers may have 10 deep analysis queries per 30 days, in comparison with the 120 deep analysis queries per 30 days Professional customers have entry to.

Powering Deep Analysis is a model of the OpenAI o3 mannequin optimized for net searching and knowledge evaluation. By leveraging o3’s superior reasoning capabilities, it could possibly search and interpret huge quantities of content material from the net, together with texts, photos, and extra, after which output it in a report focused to your wants. 

Every report is generated in 5 to half-hour, relying on the duty at hand. Nevertheless, you’ll be able to work on different duties throughout that point, optimizing your workflow productiveness. The completed report is output within the chat. Together with the replace that expanded entry to the function, OpenAI introduced deep analysis now consists of embedded photos with citations within the output and is healthier at understanding uploaded information. 

In accordance with OpenAI, the identical work would take people hours. Moreover, the agent is supposed to be notably good at discovering area of interest data that will require people to carry out a number of searches.

The target market for Deep Analysis consists of those that do intensive information work in finance, science, coverage, and engineering — and who want dependable, thorough analysis, in line with OpenAI. Each report consists of clear citations and a abstract of the agent’s pondering in order that customers can double-check the data for themselves. 

Double-checking a chatbot’s responses is mostly good observe, as chatbots are susceptible to hallucinations. Specifically, OpenAI warns that Deep Analysis “can generally hallucinate details in responses or make incorrect inferences, although at a notably decrease fee than current ChatGPT fashions, in line with inner evaluations.” OpenAI additionally added that the agent might wrestle to differentiate authoritative data from rumors and might fail to convey uncertainty accurately, highlighting the necessity for human evaluation. 

Efficiency in contrast

Within the weblog put up asserting the function, OpenAI consists of the identical side-by-side outcomes of GPT-4o versus Deep Analysis to showcase how the identical immediate generates very completely different outcomes. Those generated with Deep Analysis had been far more sturdy and higher organized. 

Deep Analysis additionally outperformed GPT-4o on Humanity’s Final Examination, a just lately launched AI benchmark examination by Scale AI and the Middle for AI Security (CAIS) that assessments varied topics on expert-level questions. Deep Analysis scored a 26.6% accuracy, outperforming GPT-4o, Grok-2, Claude 3,5 Sonnet, Gemini Considering, o1, and even o3-mini excessive, which had simply scored the best rating a few days prior, as highlighted by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.  

OpenAI additionally revealed Deep Analysis’s efficiency outcomes on a sequence of different evaluations, together with GAIA⁠, a public benchmark that evaluates AI on real-world questions and an inner analysis of expert-level duties throughout completely different areas of deep analysis. In each, Deep Analysis had spectacular outcomes, even topping the GAIA exterior leaderboard. 

Options

In order for you entry to the function now however do not need to shell out the $200 per 30 days, Google has the same function, additionally referred to as Deep Analysis, that’s obtainable to all of its Gemini Superior customers by means of the Google One AI Premium plan that prices $20 per 30 days. 

Again in December, Altman even replied to an X person who requested Altman to “do a deep analysis function like Gemini however higher,” with “kk,” suggesting that the newly launched Deep Analysis function is OpenAI’s reply to Google. 

Lately, xAI additionally launched its personal AI analysis agent, referred to as DeepSearch. X Premium and Premium+ customers have entry to DeepSearch now, with all capabilities being rolled our to all Grok customers with limits. The X Premium membership is $8 per 30 days or $84 per 12 months, whereas the Premium+ membership is $40 per 30 days or $395 per 12 months, in line with X. 

Microsoft additionally introduced a function able to extra thorough reasoning referred to as Suppose Deeper, which permits customers to leverage OpenAI’s O1 reasoning mannequin to ship higher-quality responses to advanced prompts. Nevertheless, not like Gemini, OpenAI’s and Grok’s brokers, it does not have agentic capabilities or entry to the web. The most important perk is that the expertise is totally free.