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OpenAI drops Deep Research access to Plus users, heating up AI agent wars with DeepSeek and Claude
OpenAI expands its powerful Deep Research AI agent to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Education, and Enterprise users, intensifying competition with DeepSeek and Anthropic in the rapidly evolving AI research assistant market.
Unlike traditional chatbots that provide immediate responses, Deep Research independently scours hundreds of online sources, analyzes text, images, and PDFs, and synthesizes comprehensive reports comparable to those produced by professional analysts. The company faces a fundamental tension: maintaining the premium exclusivity that funds its development while simultaneously fulfilling its mission of ensuring “artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.” Today’s announcement represents a careful step toward greater accessibility without undermining its revenue model. Rather than simply replacing junior analysts, the technology may create new hybrid roles where human expertise focuses on framing questions, evaluating sources, and critically assessing AI-generated insights.
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