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Open AI’s New Super-Powered Agents Are Here

They can research complex topics on their own for up to 30 minutes.

Jano le Roux
The Startup
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4 min readFeb 4, 2025

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OpenAI

AI research is about to change forever.

  • Not because of better models.
  • Not because of faster chips.
  • Not because of more funding.

But because AI is learning to think deeper.

Meet Deep Research — OpenAI’s next big step in autonomous reasoning.

It doesn’t just fetch information.

It doesn’t just summarize articles.

It doesn’t just give quick answers.

It digs. It discovers. It reasons.

And it might just be the closest thing to a true research assistant we’ve ever seen.

The moment I realized this was different

I’ve tried a fair share of AI research tools over the years. Most of them promised the moon and delivered a dusty rock.

Deep Research, however, felt refreshingly real. I remember sitting at my cluttered desk — papers, half-drunk coffee, and my dog snoozing in the corner — and thinking, “I need something that cuts through the noise.”

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