OpenAI expands Deep Research access to Plus users, heating up AI agent wars with DeepSeek and Claude
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Summary
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus, Team, Education and Enterprise users are set to gain access to Deep Research, according to an OpenAI announcement on 26 February 2025.
All four tiers of users will have 10 deep research queries per month, while Pro subscribers will have 120 queries.
Deep Research uses a specialised version of OpenAI’s upcoming o3 model and can analyse text, images and PDFs to produce reports.
The expanded rollout follows OpenAI’s strategy of offering a limited number of queries in order to preserve its premium value proposition.
The announcement comes as DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has challenged Western AI developers with its open-source DeepSeek-R1 model.
The open-source approach contrasts with OpenAI’s gated subscription tiers.