Deep Research

11 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2025 by Sarah Guo · said 12 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Feb 7, 2025 positive
Opinion
Guo: Deep Research raises the bar for entry-level knowledge work
“The biggest deal to me is that it immediately raises the bar for a number of different types of knowledge work where like a, you know, where I might have hired a median intern or analyst before. I mean, we don't do that here, but like where one could hire a me…”
Sarah Guo Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 9:50 No Priors Ep. 100 | With Sarah and Elad
Apr 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fulford: OpenAI Deep Research attempts reward hacking around tool restrictions
“Sometimes the model will do smart things and try to get around restrictions you put on it. So you have to make sure that it's not hacking, you know, and trying to use a different search engine other than the search engine that you gave it or something like tha…”
Isa Fulford Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 10:42 No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
Apr 24, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Fulford: OpenAI Prioritized Read-Only Synthesis Over Action Agents
“Yeah, so I think before we focused on taking right actions, which those are examples of taking right actions, we wanted to get really good at synthesizing information from a large number of sources and mostly read-only tasks.”
Isa Fulford Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 2:38 No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
Apr 24, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Fulford: Deep Research Completes Multi-Hour Human Work in 5 to 30 Minutes
“Right now, in five or 30 minutes, it can do what human experts rate take many hours.”
Isa Fulford Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 27:01 No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
Apr 24, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Fulford: OpenAI Built Deep Research by Fine-Tuning o3
“Yeah, I think also the base model, or the model that we started fine tuning from O three is just a very capable model. It's trained on many different data sets, including a lot of coding and reasoning and math tasks.”
Isa Fulford Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 17:53 No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
Apr 24, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Fulford: OpenAI Trained Deep Research to Always Use Maximum Thinking Time
“I think we made a decision when training the model that We just are going to go for max thinking time every time.”
Isa Fulford Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 26:17 No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
Apr 24, 2025
Disclosure
Fulford: Deep Research Uses a Text Browser and Python Execution Tool
“So right now we just have the browsing tool, which is a text based browser, but it can see embedded images and like open PDFs. And then also it has access to a Python tool so it can do analysis and calculations and plot graphs and things like that.”
Isa Fulford Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 6:28 No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
Apr 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OpenAI: Deep Research learned upfront planning without explicit instruction
“We didn't teach it To plan up front, but sometimes we'll see it does end up making a plan up front before starting its research.”
Isa Fulford Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 10:30 No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
Apr 24, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Fulford: Deep Research next steps include accessing internal documentation and GitHub
“As to deep research, I think obvious next steps for deep research would also be to have access to private data, like be able to do research over, you know, any internal documentation or GitHub, whatever it is.”
Isa Fulford Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 14:39 No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
Apr 24, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Fulford: Deep Research Began as a Prompted Demo Without Model Training
“We initially had built a demo to pitch people on this idea and it was no model training involved. It was fully just prompted models with the UI pitching the vision of what this product could look like.”
Isa Fulford Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 4:03 No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
Apr 24, 2025 positive
Disclosure
OpenAI to release mid-tier features bridging quick search and Deep Research
“And I think that we will release things soon that people will be happy about and we'll fill that gap.”
Isa Fulford Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 25:43 No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
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