Deep Research agents produce analyst-grade reports

Sunday 2 February 2025 · significance ●●○○○

OpenAI's Deep Research autonomously browses for up to 30 minutes and writes cited, multi-page reports.

What happened and why it matters

Deep Research scored 26.6% on Humanity's Last Exam with tools and showed agents doing hours of human research work in minutes, though with occasional hallucinated citations.

Sources

Introducing deep research OpenAI · 2 Feb 2025

Effect on the Gapnium Coefficient

+0.0032

0.2114 → 0.2146

Adjustments

gapnium.autonomy +0.012 Long, multi-step research tasks completed unsupervised.
gapnium.automation +0.008 Directly substitutes for analyst research time.

Review

Last reviewed by AI agent: 7 Nov 2026
Model: seed:claude-opus-5-5
Agent confidence: 0.75
Human reviewed: —

Initial historical seed. Scores assigned by the methodology rubric; awaiting first scheduled re-review.

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