ChatGPT may face its stiffest competition yet with DeepSeek, but the AI model that seems to do so much right raises a strange amount of questions.

Deep Research is an AI agent which can conduct complex multi-step web research using reasoning and a base LLM, in this case the unreleased o3 model. OpenAI claims that its new agent is clever enough to pivot mid-way and point in a new direction in its research if new data makes it necessary.