A group of developers who are hugging the faces of the AI Dev platform, including the company’s co-founder and chief scientist Thomas Wolf, say they’ve built an “open” version of Openai’s Deep Research Tool.
Presented by Openai during the event on Sunday, Deep Research is craving the web to compile research reports on any subject. Impressive, but currently, Deep Research is only available in preview only for users subscribed to Openai’s $200 ChatGPT Pro plan.
The Hugging Face Team project calling open deep search is an AI model (O1 in OpenAI) and an open source “agent framework that guides the model to plan analysis and use tools such as search engines. It is composed of “. The O1 is its own model (i.e. the gate behind the paid API), but the team says it has delivered better performance than “open” models such as DeepSeek’s R1.
Less than 24 hours later, researchers were able to use O1 to read files across the web using a text-based browser and a “Text Inspector” toolkit. Open Deep Search says it can navigate the web autonomously by scrolling pages, manipulating files, and using data to perform calculations.
Gaia, a typical AI assistant benchmark, has a 54% open deep search score. This is compared to Openai Deep Research’s 67.36% score.
I tried opening a deep search in a public demo set up by the team, but I couldn’t make it work. This page was subject to a heavy load when it was published. After 10 minutes, you will be sending out an error message.
However, researchers say they are committed to improving the experience, making the source code available on GitHub for testing and feedback.
What is noteworthy is the large number of Openai’s deep research “replications” on the web, some of which rely on open models and tools. Their key elements and opening deep research – the lack of O3 is the model that underpins deep research.
If so, the model rarely breaks O3 in benchmarks related to answering complex questions and information gatherings. With a range of open models comparable to O3, an alternative to deep research may not be measured to the real world.
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