The technology company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, has announced its Deep Research capability is now rolling out to all paid users.
The team shared the news on Tuesday (February 25) as they explained how those on the Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu plans will all have 10 deep research queries per month.
The Pro users will now have access to 120 deep research queries per month.
Deep research is now rolling out to all ChatGPT Plus, Team, Edu, and Enterprise users 🍾
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) February 25, 2025
Several updates have also been made, including the agent’s ability to better understand and reference uploaded files. Another change is that embedded images will be shown with citations in the output.
The model has been powered by an early version of OpenAI o3 which has been optimized for web browsing.
At the same time that the rollout was being completed, it was announced a version of Advanced Voice powered by GPT-4o mini would also be given to all ChatGPT free users so they can preview it.
Previously, this has been on the paid-for plans which will continue but those users have a higher limit than the free version. Those on the Pro plan will continue to have unlimited access.
What is OpenAI Deep Research on ChatGPT?
This comes just a few weeks after the Deep Research tool was first announced on February 2, with it being described as a “new agentic capability that conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks.”
It leverages reasoning to search, interpret, and analyze “massive amounts of text, images, and PDFs on the Internet, pivoting as needed in reaction to information it encounters.” The tool can also read files and analyze data by writing and executing Python code.
OpenAI isn’t the only one to create an extra level of research, either. On February 24, Anthropic launched its new reasoning model with an extended thinking mode. The feature can be used on Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which is both a large language model (LLM) and a reasoning model in one. This allows the AI to expend more effort in coming to an answer, and the process is detailed for the user to see.
Featured Image: Via OpenAI ‘Deep research System Card’ blog post
