“OpenAI unveiled the new tool, called Deep Research, with a demonstration on YouTube on Sunday, days after showing the technology to lawmakers, policymakers and other officials in Washington.

‘It can do complex research tasks that might take a person anywhere from 30 minutes to 30 days,’ Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s chief product officer, said at the event in Washington. By contrast, Deep Research can accomplish such tasks in five to 30 minutes, depending on the complexity…

During the briefing on Capitol Hill, Mr. Weil showed the technology gathering information about Albert Einstein. He asked the tool to put together a detailed report about the physicist for a hypothetical Senate staff member preparing for a congressional hearing where Einstein is a nominee for U.S. secretary of energy.

In addition to providing information about Einstein’s background and personality, it generated five questions that a senator could ask the physicist to determine whether he was the right person for the job.

‘It can surf the web and understand text and images and PDFs,’ Mr. Weil said. ‘And it can do this recursively. It can do one search, and that leads to other searches, and then it can synthesize all the information it has learned.'”

From New York Times.