OpenAI is announcing a new AI "agent" designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT, the company's AI-powered chatbot platform.

ChatGPT is getting a new deep research mode that will let users ask the chatbot to perform "multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks," OpenAI announced Sunday. Why it matters: It's another step toward fulfillment of the AI industry's promise that AI agents will soon be able to perform human tasks reliably,

Artificial intelligence newcomer DeepSeek has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy, with its high performance and supposed low cost prompting calls for US developers to go faster.