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If you haven't tried OpenAI's deep research feature, you are missing out. I'm not sure of any good alternatives, I've tried Google's, and I'm not impressed. Th

If you haven't tried OpenAI's deep research feature, you are missing out. I'm not sure of any good alternatives, I've tried Google's, and I'm not impressed. There is a lot of value to say engineers doing tradeoff studies using these tools as a huge head start.

ankit219 1y ago
Try one from Kimi 2 as well. I was surprised how good it turned out to be.
crmd 1y ago
It’s been invaluable to me for market research related to starting a business. It’s like having a bright early career new hire research assistant/product manager “on staff” to collaborate with.
criemen 1y ago
Perplexities isn't bad? Although I lack the OpenAI subscription to compare.
freedomben 1y ago
I've gotten pretty different results from OpenAI and Gemini, though it's hard to say one is better/worse than the other. Just different
ripley12 1y ago
Anthropic's Research is pretty good; I'd say on par with OpenAI. Agreed about Google, accuracy is a little better on the paid version but the reports are still frustrating to read through. They're incredibly verbose, like an undergrad padding a report to get to a certain word count.
- the_duke 1y ago
  That's Gemini Pro now in general. The initial preview was pretty good, but the newer iterations are incredibly verbose. "Be terse" is a mandatory part of the prompt now. Either it's to increase token counts so they can charge more, or to show better usage growth metrics internally or for shareholders, or just some odd effects of fine tuning / system prompt ... who knows.
barrell 1y ago
Every time I need a deep research (1-2x per month) I ask all the providers. OpenAI’s deep research has consistently performed the worst by a significant margin. If you’re just using OpenAI’s deep research, then you’re the one missing out ;-)
sunaookami 1y ago
All of them create an overly verbose report that reads like typical AI slop. Especially Gemini - it's good that it reads like 200 sources but it creates a page long "report" when you e.g. only want to compare features or prices.

ankit219 1y ago

Try one from Kimi 2 as well. I was surprised how good it turned out to be.

crmd 1y ago

It’s been invaluable to me for market research related to starting a business. It’s like having a bright early career new hire research assistant/product manager “on staff” to collaborate with.

criemen 1y ago

Perplexities isn't bad? Although I lack the OpenAI subscription to compare.

freedomben 1y ago

I've gotten pretty different results from OpenAI and Gemini, though it's hard to say one is better/worse than the other. Just different

ripley12 1y ago

Anthropic's Research is pretty good; I'd say on par with OpenAI. Agreed about Google, accuracy is a little better on the paid version but the reports are still frustrating to read through. They're incredibly verbose, like an undergrad padding a report to get to a certain word count.

the_duke 1y ago
That's Gemini Pro now in general. The initial preview was pretty good, but the newer iterations are incredibly verbose. "Be terse" is a mandatory part of the prompt now. Either it's to increase token counts so they can charge more, or to show better usage growth metrics internally or for shareholders, or just some odd effects of fine tuning / system prompt ... who knows.

barrell 1y ago

Every time I need a deep research (1-2x per month) I ask all the providers. OpenAI’s deep research has consistently performed the worst by a significant margin. If you’re just using OpenAI’s deep research, then you’re the one missing out ;-)

sunaookami 1y ago

All of them create an overly verbose report that reads like typical AI slop. Especially Gemini - it's good that it reads like 200 sources but it creates a page long "report" when you e.g. only want to compare features or prices.