ChatGPT can now write complex reports and cite its sources. That could free up your workers and change how you task them dramatically.

OpenAI is announcing a new AI "agent" designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT, the company's AI-powered chatbot platform.

On the heels of its o3 mini release, OpenAI announced a new ChatGPT agent for handling in-depth research. Appropriately, it's called "deep research."

In a move toward the prediction that AI agents will soon be able to perform human tasks reliably, OpenAI has launched an agentic capability dubbed deep research that can handle complex tasks by conducting “multi-step research” online.

Described as “an agent that uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you,” deep research is now available to users on ChatGPT’s $200 per month Pro plan;