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The Inventors of Deep Research
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- Feb 18, 2025
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Summary
While “LLM-powered Search” is as old as Perplexity and SearchGPT, and open source projects like GPTResearcher and clones like OpenDeepResearch exist, the difference with “Deep Research” products is they are both “ agentic ” (loosely meaning that an LLM decides the next step in a workflow, usually involving tools) and bundling custom-tuned frontier models (custom tuned o3 and Gemini 1.5 Flash). The reception to OpenAI’s Deep Research agent has been nothing short of breathless: "Deep Research is the best public-facing AI product Google has ever released . It's like having a college-educated researcher in your pocket." - Jason Calacanis “I have had [Deep Research] write a number of ten-page papers for me, each of them outstanding. I think of the quality as comparable to having a good PhD-level research assistant , and sending that person away with a task for a week or two , or maybe more. Except Deep Research does the work in five or six minutes .” - Tyler Cowen “Deep Research is one of the best bargains in technology .” - Ben Thompson “my very approximate vibe is that it can do a single-digit percentage of all economically valuable tasks in the world , which is a wild milestone.” - sama “Using Deep Research over the past few weeks has been my own personal AGI moment . It takes 10 mins to generate accurate and thorough competitive and market research (with sources) that previously used to take me at least 3 hours.” - OAI employee “It's like a bazooka for the curious mind” - Dan Shipper “Deep research can be seen as a new interface for the internet , in addition to being an incredible agent… This paradigm will be so powerful that in the future, navigating the internet manually via a browser will be "old-school" , like performing arithmetic calculations by hand.” - Jason We…