OpenAI has launched a brand new agent able to conducting advanced, multistep on-line analysis into every thing from scientific research to customized bike suggestions at what it claims is similar degree as a human analyst.

The software, known as Deep Analysis, is powered by a model of OpenAI’s o3 reasoning mannequin that’s been optimized for net looking and information evaluation. It may search and analyze huge portions of textual content, photographs, and PDFs to compile a completely researched report.

OpenAI claims the software represents a big step towards its overarching aim of creating synthetic basic intelligence (AGI) that matches (or surpasses) human efficiency. It says that what takes the software “tens of minutes” would take a human many hours.

In response to a single question, corresponding to “Draw me up a aggressive evaluation between streaming platforms,” Deep Analysis will search the online, analyze the knowledge it encounters, and compile an in depth report that cites its sources. It’s additionally ready to attract from recordsdata uploaded by customers.

OpenAI developed Deep Analysis utilizing the identical “chain of thought” reinforcement-learning strategies it used to create its o1 multistep reasoning mannequin. However whereas o1 was designed to focus totally on arithmetic, coding, or different STEM-based duties, Deep Analysis can sort out a far broader vary of topics. It may additionally alter its responses in response to new information it comes throughout in the midst of its analysis.

This doesn’t imply that Deep Analysis is immune from the pitfalls that befall different AI fashions. OpenAI says the agent can typically hallucinate info and current its customers with incorrect info, albeit at a “notably” decrease fee than ChatGPT. And since every query might take between 5 and half-hour for Deep Analysis to reply, it’s very compute intensive—the longer it takes to analysis a question, the extra computing energy required.

Regardless of that, Deep Analysis is now obtainable at no additional value to subscribers to OpenAI’s paid Professional tier and can quickly roll out to its Plus, Workforce, and Enterprise customers.