ChatGPT Deep Research

Multi-step web research with cited, report-style answers

An agent inside ChatGPT that independently searches, analyzes, and synthesizes large amounts of online information. It’s built for research-heavy tasks where you need a documented answer, not just a quick summary.

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What It Is

ChatGPT Deep Research is an AI research agent built into ChatGPT. It is designed to handle multi-step web research tasks by searching across many sources, reading documents, and producing a structured report with citations. OpenAI positions it for...

What to Know

This is one of ChatGPT’s more agentic features: it can work for several minutes, follow leads across the web, and revise its approach as it encounters new information. OpenAI says it produces fully documented outputs with clear citations and a...

Key Features

Conducts multi-step web research from a single prompt

Searches, reads, and synthesizes hundreds of online sources

Generates report-style answers with citations

Accepts attached files and spreadsheets for context

Shows a sidebar with steps taken and sources used

Use Cases

Building a competitive analysis from multiple public sources

Researching policy, science, finance, or engineering topics

Gathering niche information that requires many web sources

Agenticness: Adaptive Collaborator

Proposes and executes multi-step plans with your approval.

High evidence

Last evaluated: Jul 24, 2026

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