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4 Lifechanging ChatGPT Features You May Not Know About (Feb. 2025)

ChatGPT has been releasing a ton of powerful features recently… Are you caught up?

Jordan Gibbs
5 min readFeb 16, 2025
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It’s been a wild couple of months for ChatGPT. Here are some mind-blowing new features that you need to try right now.

1. Deep Research

Deep research is a feature that enables ChatGPT to use a web browser to do chain-of-thought research, meaning that it can do multiple layers of searching. This means it can do research in the proper sense; it can actually go down rabbit holes, make a plan, and even adjust its approach as it runs.

After using it these past weeks, I’ve seen it research things that would take a human hours to do in minutes.

Here’s a fun example: having it find a backpacking trail that I can take my beginner friend on:

As you can see, after reviewing 21 sources it got me a super comprehensive report of many different trails I could check out with my friend — in a fraction of the time it would have taken me to do so.

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Jordan Gibbs
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