Openai releases AI -Agent aiming to speed up online -research

Openai releases a new artificial intelligence tool designed to perform time-consuming online research for users on everything from complex science questions to car recommendations-to extend the startup portfolio of AI agents acting on a person’s behalf.

The service, called Deep Research, will be available to certain paying customers through Openais Chatgpt Chatbot online, the company said in a blog post on Sunday. In response to a quick, the tool shed words, images and PDFs online as well as files uploaded by the user to create an in -depth report. Openai compared the function with a research analyst and said it is intended to do in “tens of thousands of minutes”, which would typically take a person “many hours.”

Deep Research is the second AI agent that San Francisco-based Openai has released this year. Last month, Openai introduced operator who can help book flights, plan grocery orders and even complete purchases for users. Both services are originally available just for those who pay $ 200 per day. Month for Openais recently introduced Chatgpt Pro option.

Rollouts is part of a wider industry pushing against agents, or AI software that can perform multi-step tasks for users with minimal supervision. Openai-Backer Microsoft Corp. And rival anthropic has launched their own acquisitions on agent software, as do a number of other startups. Companies hope that such tools can save users time with their personal and professional tasks and thereby live up to the long -standing promise that AI will make people more productive.

Openai CEO Sam Altman has previously said that agents will be “the next giant breakthrough” for AI. The effort of this effort has only risen in the midst of renewed concern that Chatbots from Chinese companies like Deepseek quickly catches up with top US AI developers, including Openai.

Chatgpt Maker warned that deep research is still in the early stages and can present compound information as actual. It may also have difficulty distinguishing rumors from accurate information.

The research tool is also “very intended intensive” according to Openai. To begin with, users will only be able to submit 100 queries per Month.

Openai eventually plans to offer the service to other paying customers, including those who subscribe to its plus, team and business opportunities, but the company did not provide a schedule to do so.