It appears that OpenAI is in panic mode after the release of DeepSeek. Before they were confident in competing against Google on any AI model they release.
Now they are scrambling against open-source after their disastrous operator demonstration and using this deep research demo as cover. Nothing that Google or Perplexity could not already do themselves.
By the end of them month, this feature is going be added by a bunch of other open-source projects and this feature won't be as interesting very quickly.
I don’t think you’re comparing the right things here. This feature is more like Google’s Deep Research, which basically goes off and does a whole lot of search and compute to produce something more like a full research report. This has nothing to do with open weight models like DeepSeek (note: DeepSeek, Llama, etc are NOT open source). This feature doesn’t just require the research on the model but also enormous compute. Plus anyone using such a feature for real work is not going to be using DeepSeek or whatever, but a product with trustworthy practices and guarantees.
> This feature is more like Google’s Deep Research, which basically goes off and does a whole lot of search and compute to produce something more like a full research report.
Of course. It is in response to their disastrous operator demo which did not justify the $200 per month ChatGPT Pro subscription on top of the release of DeepSeek to make matters worse for them.
> This has nothing to do with open weight models like DeepSeek (note: DeepSeek, Llama, etc are NOT open source).
It obviously does. Even before they rushed this presentation, they made o3-mini available for ChatGPT free users so it in direct response to DeepSeek.
> This feature doesn’t just require the research on the model but also enormous compute. Plus anyone using such a feature for real work is not going to be using DeepSeek or whatever, but a product with trustworthy practices and guarantees.
Nothing that Perplexity + DeepSeek-R1 can already do.
Now they are scrambling against open-source after their disastrous operator demonstration and using this deep research demo as cover. Nothing that Google or Perplexity could not already do themselves.
By the end of them month, this feature is going be added by a bunch of other open-source projects and this feature won't be as interesting very quickly.