The confrontation between Google and Openai is capital and, after the first, these days ago, is about to launch one of its important novelties to Gemini, now the second has expanded access to one of its best functions, Deep Research. Is already available in Chatgpt This model that is responsible for exploring the web to find the necessary resources to generate an extensive and complex report.
Google also offers this experience through Gemini for free users and Advanced subscription, although the biggest difference is that the payment plan allows research reports with Gemini 2.5 Pro, its most advanced AI model. So both Openai and Google play a light version of Deep Research, but with a lower capacity AI model.
OpenAI has announced that it already offers advanced Deep Research research to users who pay for the Chatgpt Plus, Team and Pro plan, just like launched a light version For those who use ChatgPT free of charge, so the experience is expanded both in the web version and the mobile app.
Deep Research’s light version is Based on the O4-mini modeland Openai maintains that, although it is not as capable as the major version, it is less heavy in resources and allows the company to expand the limits of use. There are some details to which the company captained by Sam Altman has referred to better understand the limitations with which it reaches free users.
OpenAI in an X (formerly Twitter) publication: “The answers will be shorter while its depth and quality are maintained. Once the limits of the original version of Deep Research are exceeded, the consultations will go to the light version of the experience automatically. “
We’ve Noticed Many of You Love Using Deep Research, So We’re Expanding Usage for Plus, Team, and Pro Users by Introduction A Lightweight version of Deep Research in Order To increase current rate limits.
We’re Also Rolling out the Lightweight version to free users.
– OpenAi (@openai) April 24, 2025
Deep Research is not something newand if Google already offers it for free or through its Advanced Payment Subscription, Copilot de Microsoft and Grok of X are also there to make consultations that require a more complex investigation of the resources available on the web. It also usually takes more time to receive the report, so it is a limited experience for certain more extensive questions or consultations.
The Light version of Deep Research of Chatgpt, according to Techcrunchwill reach the users of the Enterprise and educational plans As of next week with the same use limitations as Team users, as OpenAi has shared since its various publications in X (formerly Twitter) in these hours ago.
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A Race for generative artificial intelligence That, for the moment, it seems that it has no limit and in which OpenAi, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, X and many others are competing, since there are also the models of AI dedicated to the generation of images and others for the video.
