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,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased exactly two weeks ago that o3-mini would ship in “a couple of weeks,” and it’s arriving on time today. OpenAI is launching its latest o3-mini reasoning model inside ChatGPT and its API services and making a version with rate limits available to free users of ChatGPT for the first time.