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THE DEEP RESEARCH PROBLEM

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Summary from the TLDR newsletter

While the examples of the work Deep Research can do OpenAI has provided look great, there are several issues with the tool. It appears the tool made intern-level mistakes when sourcing its data for one of the examples. While these models are definitely getting better, any model that generates mistakes can't be trusted. The best use cases for tools like this so far are for tasks where the error rate doesn't matter.