Summary
- OpenAI has boosted the capabilities of its ChatGPT Plus, Team, Education and Enterprise users, giving them access to its powerful Deep Research tool.
- Powered by a specialist version of OpenAI’s o3 model, Deep Research can scour hundreds of online sources to produce reports akin to those created by professional analysts.
- The expanded rollout has been made in response to China’s DeepSeek becoming an emerging rival to OpenAI.
- DeepSeek open-sourced its DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model, delivering comparable performance to OpenAI’s o1 at a much lower cost.
- OpenAI’s approach to retaining its exclusive, premium offering while expanding accessibility is to offer limited free usage to customers, with usage limits for different pricing plans.
- The company’s “deep research” expands on ChatGPT’s origins as a language model by enabling users to ask more complex questions and retrieve more detailed answers by searching the contents of the web.
Here are some salient points:
- Current ChatGPT users will see no change in their experiences, although they will have the chance to upgrade and take part in the expanded capabilities as they become available.