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."

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; Plus and Team plans are next in the queue to receive access, with Enterprise users following.

The AI agent runs on a version of OpenAI's upcoming o3 model, but for now, you need a $200-per-month Pro subscription to try it out.

What is deep research? Here’s all you need to know about the new OpenAI’s AI agent for conducting in-depth, complex research with ChatGPT.

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, caught the entire AI market by surprise, and no one more so than OpenAI. Its ChatGPT-like model R1 received raving reviews with a fraction of the development cost. President Trump called it a “wake-up” call for the entire American tech industry.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)-backed OpenAI launched a new feature in ChatGPT called "deep research", an agentic capability that conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks. The AI company said it is the company's next agent that can do work for the user independently.

OpenAI has released a new AI agent called “Deep Research”, which allows users to perform complex research tasks using ChatGPT. OpenAI announced in a blog post that all ChatGPT Pro subscribers will receive access to the new feature today,