OpenAI announced on the 25th (local time) that it will significantly expand the target audience for its AI agent-based research report writing tool "DeepResearch."
OpenAI decided to open DeepResearch, which was previously available only to Pro subscribers at $200 per month, to all paid subscribers including Plus, Team, Edu, and Enterprise. As a result, users of the $20 per month Plus plan can now use this feature.
DeepResearch is an AI agent that utilizes ChatGPT to conduct complex multi-step research on the internet and automatically creates research analysis-level reports by compiling various materials, such as text, images, and PDFs. OpenAI explained that this tool can complete tasks that would take a person several hours in just a few minutes.
This AI agent is powered by OpenAI's inference model "o3," which is optimized for data analysis and web search. With this update, Plus users can make 10 research requests per month, while Pro subscribers have seen their limit increase from 100 to 120.
Additionally, new features have been added to the reports, including citations and images, and the document analysis performance has also been improved. OpenAI stated that this will provide "richer insights."
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, introduced DeepResearch at the beginning of this month as "the first AI agent that can perform complex and important tasks."
Meanwhile, OpenAI emphasized that DeepResearch has an accuracy rate about three times higher compared to the inference model "R1" of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.