Deep Research has already been commoditized, with Perplexity and xAI launching their own versions almost immediately.
Deep Research is also not a good product. As I covered last week, the quality of writing that you receive from a Deep Research report is terrible, rivaled only by the appalling quality of its citations, which include forum posts and Search Engine Optimized content instead of actual news sources. These reports are neither “deep” nor well researched, and cost OpenAI a great deal of money to deliver.
Good homework by Zitron on the numbers, and he’s a really entertaining writer, but my (very brief) experience so far using it for work-related research more closely matches Sarah Constantin’s assessment concluding that ChatGPT-4o DR was the best one she tested (including Perplexity, Gemini, ChatGPT-4o, Elicit, and PaperQA) on completeness, relevance, source quality, and creativity.
Good homework by Zitron on the numbers, and he’s a really entertaining writer, but my (very brief) experience so far using it for work-related research more closely matches Sarah Constantin’s assessment concluding that ChatGPT-4o DR was the best one she tested (including Perplexity, Gemini, ChatGPT-4o, Elicit, and PaperQA) on completeness, relevance, source quality, and creativity.
I was very disappointed with perplexity DR, it has the same name but it’s definitely not the same product as OAI’s DR.