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Imagine having complete control over your company's information and the web. Let's be honest, whether you're an AI native worker or not, when it comes to retrieving the correct information, whether it's from your your company's files and folders, or cloud or the Internet, it takes a long time. But what if you had like a Jarvis esque enabled tool that could find high value insights from AI models without all of that nonsensical back and forth or those pesky hallucinations that come with using AI models? So while Deep Research tools have given us glimpses of this type of informational control that you really only see in superhero movies, I think even the most powerful options have left a bit to be desired. Well, that may have changed this past week with OpenAI's latest update to its Deep Research platform. And if I'm being honest, I think a lot of people missed it because of everything that was going on in the AI world. I mean, Microsoft was like, ah, we're not going to use OpenAI's models anymore and OpenAI and Anthropic are kind of fighting in this open cloth thing. It's been crazy. So I think the majority of people missed this huge announcement from OpenAI because they just kind of rolled it out as a little tweet. But it is a new Deep Research update and we're going to be going over it today and the five ways that you can use it starting now. So I hope you're excited. I am too. This is Everyday AI, but this is our Putting AI to Work on Wednesday's series. So for the past year or so we've been doing this every single week. A practical and actionable hands on walkthrough for a new AI tool or model. So let's get into it and if you are brand new here. Well, welcome to Everyday AI. My name is Jordan Wilson and we do this every day. Not just Wednesdays, Monday through Friday with the unedited, unscripted daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter helping business leaders like you. Yeah. Sift through all of that information better save time to grow your companies and your careers. So if that's what you try to do. Starts here. But make sure you take it to the next level by going to our website at your Everyday AI dot com. Sign up for the free daily newsletter. We're going to be recapping the highlights from today's show as well as all of the important AI news today that is going to impact your company tomorrow and in the future. All right, speaking of impacting you and your company now and in the future, if you haven't already, I cannot tell you enough times, make sure you go listen to episode 712 and 7 13. That is our 2026 AI predictions and roadmap series. Trust me, it is literally thousands of hours of conversations over the past year, all into two episodes that you can't miss. All right, but let's talk about what we're here for. The new Chad GBT updated Deep Research. And you know, apologies to our live stream audience if you're listening on the podcast, you didn't know this. Sometimes when I say unedited, unscripted, yeah, tried to do this earlier today, audio went haywire. So sorry about that. This is take two. But regardless, let's get in and learn about the new Deep Research. So what we're going to be going over on today's show, the single upgrade, one small little thing that I think turns now chat GPT's deep research from Chatbot into a true research platform. Why your company data just became Deep Research's most powerful source. And last but not least, I'm going to be going over five practical use cases that can replace hours of manual research that you can do today. All right, so here's what's new. OpenAI announced this last week with a tweet, nothing else, no live stream, no big hoopla, and I think it's pretty big. So it is available right now for plus and pro users and I think it's going to be rolling out here soon to free users on Chat gbt. So here's the biggest updates. Visually, you'll notice it right away if you're using the new version of Deep Research and I'll show you how to choose between the two. But reports now appear in a full screen viewer with a split screen citation checking as well as a nice little table of contents on the left side. So visually it looks better, it's easier to work with, and it's just a better experience reading these research reports. So there's also you can upload files both in the beginning and during the course of the Deep Research without interrupting it, which is huge. And then using that as your primary context for research. The other thing kind of related to that is Live steering lets you pause or redirect the Deep Research agent logic in real time without having to start over. And then the one thing. This one little feature that I think is actually turning Deep Research from a nice little, you know, tool to a complete research platform is the ability to choose which websites it does go to, which is big. And then the most obvious update, but probably the biggest one there is the updated model. So now this is running GPT 5.2. So this is OpenAI's technically their latest series of models available in chat GPT. There is a GPT 53 Codex, but that's only available in their Codex platform, which by the way, Codex is absolutely insanely good even for, you know, non technical, non coding work. Anyways, this new Deep Research is powered by their latest model available in ChatGPT, which is the GPT5.2 family of models. So unfortunately we don't know exactly what flavor or variation that they're actually using for this. We just know it's GPT 5.2. I assume it's probably GPT5.2 thinking. I don't know if it's the GPT5.2 Pro model. Um, hopefully OpenAI will release a little bit more information, but from my use case, my testing, obviously using ChatGPT way too much every single day, my thought is it's a, it's an extended thinking version and not the Pro version. Speaking of that limits who gets it, how much. So if you are a pro user on that $200 a month plan like I am, you get a 125 full model and then 125 lightweight queries. So again, you know, like the last version of Deep Research was technically powered by a dual model approach, O3 and O4, so those models aren't really used anymore. So I believe it was the O3 full and then the O4 mini. So presumably there's two different versions of 5. 2. So once you hit your queries on the full version, then you get the lightweight. So yeah, hopefully OpenAI releases a little bit more information on that because I think it's super important if you are on the normal 20amonth or a teams plan, you get to 10 full model runs and then 15 lightweights for every 30 days. So, you know, essentially you get one every work day of the month, between the heavy and the light. And then free users are expected to get limited queries in late February 2026. So I've checked my different free accounts, don't have access to it yet. Obviously I have access on my Pro account, my plus account, my teams accounts, all my other accounts. All right, here's why I think it's no longer just a mode and now this is a fully deep research platform, aside from the end goal is much better, the model is exponentially better. Right. And not just that, but the ability to pause, redirect and interrupt this model in the, in the middle is such a huge game changing option or feature. Right? So if you are a Power ChatGPT user, you'll know that actually OpenAI rolled out this feature I think a couple of months ago to pro users. Right. So if you're using GPT5.2 Pro, which is probably my favorite model, I do have to give Gemini 3Deepthink a little more, a little more time to see if that, you know, can kind of take the crown and at least in my personal usage. Right. But with GPT5.2 Pro, it can often take 20, 30 minutes, an hour longer. Right? So Deep Research queries, if you haven't used it, the new model is actually a little slower, which I think is not a bad thing than the previous Deep Research. But Deep Research query might run anywhere from, you know, eight minutes to 45 minutes, right. It really just depends on number one, what you're asking it, number two, the data that you're giving it, the complexity of your query, you know, any steering that you do in the middle of the query. So it really depends. And you know, I'll say this, if you're not running, whether it's on chat, GPT, Google, Gemini, their new deep research, powered by Gemini 3 Pro is absolutely bonkers. Good, right? Claude's research tool, not Deep Research, their research tool, Perplexity, whatever. If you're not using a deep research tool daily in connecting your data on the front end, I'm telling you, you are absolutely missing out. It is the best way to consume synthesized, well sourced information at scale that is personalized for you, your use case, your businesses viewpoint, et cetera. It is literally sometimes, right. I've worked with consultancies in the past, right. Some Deep Research queries, if you give them enough information, enough context in that context window. I mean it is like you've hired a consulting company if you do it right, right. It is an amazing output. So let's talk a little bit about why the 5, 2 model matters. Well, it's enhanced reasoning capabilities for complex multi source research tasks, just smarter research planning and improved synthesis across multiple sources. And you can still use the old model if you want to, but for the most part, there is actually one caveat that I'll share here in a little bit, but for the most part I do think that users are going to get a much Better experience from the new 5, 2 model. The document viewer is also great. So I am going to show that. Right. It's our putting AI to work at Wednesday. So I will grab the screen here in a little bit and do some live walkthroughs. What could go wrong? Right? Aside from my audio not working like the first attempt today, but research reports are now open in a dedicated full screen interface. So it's just a nicer way to consume the information. It's less cluttered. The table of contents on the left is really cool. I like that. It's great to have. And then you also have the dedicated source panel on the right for easier and faster fact checking. And then the great thing is, is that real time control. So you can obviously, like when you're using a thinking model, you can kind of monitor the chain of thought, but it's kind of a two pronged approach. And I can show you. So it's going to both show you what sources it's looking at. It's going to. Technically, there's three different things that you can see by kind of watching this in real time. There are sources it looks at, which is usually hundreds. There's sources that it will use, which is usually dozens. And then you can also see kind of the steps or the thinking that the model takes. So it's great to be able to see that. A little more granular control with this new version of Deep Research versus the last version and then being able to adjust Deep Research in the middle with new sources or follow up instructions midway like you could with GPT5.2 Pro. It's just such. It is, it is huge, right? Even if you don't have the 30 minutes to sit around and watch the computer screen, if I'm being honest. Schedule some time that you can with a meaningful Deep Research query, right? Especially if you're, you know, you know, on the normal paid plan where it's somewhat limited. If you do that earlier on in the process, it's going to pay its dividends later. I kid you not. One of the easiest things to do to get better results out of any large language model is to watch the chain of thought. You know, write down notes as it goes along, look at the output, compare your input, your notes as you go along in the output, and then run it again. Right? Such an easy shortcut to get much better. And I think with a new version of Deep Research, aside from the fact that you can interrupt it midway, always running a second or third time is going to give you better results. All Right, So now let's do this live because I do want to show everyone here a little bit on kind of the new setup, the new layout. So I'm going to share my screen here, live stream audience, thank you for letting me know earlier that my, that my audio wasn't working. So let's, let's try this again. What could go wrong? Right? All right, so let's bring up my chat GPT window. AI moves too fast to follow, but you're expected to keep up. Otherwise your career or company might lag behind while AI native competitors leap ahead. But you don't have 10 hours a day to understand it all. That's what I do for you. But after 700 plus episodes of everyday AI, the most common questions I get is where do I start? That's why we created the Start Here series, an ongoing podcast series of more than a dozen episodes you can listen to in order to. It covers the AI basics for beginners and sharpens the skills of AI champions pushing their companies forward. In the ongoing series, we explain complex trends in simple language that you can turn into action. There's three ways to jump in. Number one, go scroll back to the first one in episode 691. Number two, tap the link in your show notes at any time for the Start Here series. Or you can just go to Start Here series which also gives you free access to our inner circle community where you can connect with other business leaders doing the same. The Start Here series will slow down the pace of AI so you can get ahead. All right, there we go. And you know, podcast audience, I'm going to do my best to describe this, but if you want to see the video version, you can always do that on our website at your everyday AI.com. you can always listen to the podcast there on as well each episode page, listen to the, the video version, etc. Okay, so let's go ahead. I'm going to clear my, my little computer interface out a little bit here. Okay, so I just started a deep research query, but I'm going to walk you through how this new version works. So right now I am on my. Looks like I'm on my team's plan because I have this company knowledge button which is a little different than if you're on a normal plan. It's not super important. But so now, uh, to start a deep research query, you'll see kind of what I'm doing here. You're going to look in the, the prompt bar, click the plus button. Okay, you're going to see the deep Research option in the menu that pops up. So here's the thing. A lot of people are overlooking this now. There's a dropdown menu after you select Deep Research and from there you can select the version. The new updated version is just called Deep Research. The older version is called Legacy. So why would you want to use that Legacy version? It's an old model, it's O3 and 04 mini, right. You want to use 5.2 for the most part. There's all these new features that you just told me about. Jordan, why would you ever use Legacy? I'm being honest. There is one little thing I actually like better. So in the old model, so in Legacy model, right before it got started, before the Deep Research got started, it would usually ask you three to five clarifying questions. Okay. Which is always nice because what if you, you know, just type something that's nonsensical if you make a mistake, right. You don't want to have to wait in the old version a long time for it to be done. So I like that it would ask follow up questions. So in the new version there is a similar feature. Essentially it puts the plan together and you just have to approve it. Right. Technically I like the old version better because those questions that it would ask you really, I think lead to a better first version. So what I would recommend, and if you've taken our free prime prompt polish course, you know, which is just updated, it's free. Inside of our inner circle community, you know this concept of context stacking, I would context stack first before starting a Deep Research query. FYI, two to three times better results easily. All right, so now let's go ahead and jump in here. So I have a prompt up on my screen, a Deep Research query and it's already working. So I'm going to show you what's happening. So I essentially said I use Canva every single day for building slides for the everyday AI show. Please do not look at these titles as sometimes I do not always update the titles. So essentially in my Deep Research query, you can choose the different apps that it has access to. Right. Last time I checked, there's 60 some different apps that you can connect your data to. So I use Canva every single day for my, you know, ugly slides that I put up on the screen here on the live stream. So I have 720 some canva decks that have a wealth of information. Right. And then I'm also giving Deeper Research access to my website. So this new feature you can click on Manage sites all Right. And you can choose a specific site, which is great. And then there's also a new toggle option. So I have it on my screen here, but it's very easy to see this. And then it says prioritize these sites but allow full web search. So essentially you can can require deep research to go to, you know, your site first or you know, a series of sites that you trust, your competitor sites, etc, but you don't have to limit it, but you can if you want. Right? So in this use case I'm actually going to do that. All right. And then it gave me a kind of a research plan here. So it says I'm going to extract live stream decks from the user's Canva account using the Canva connector. It's funny that OpenAI is still calling it a connector even though it's not what it's called anymore. It's called an app. Anyways, let me get back to my original prompt. Sorry, got sidetracked here. So I said please look through the last six months of Canva documents that appear to be live stream presentations for the everyday AI show. This is important, all right, Because I obviously use Canva for dozens of other projects. So I'm saying ignore those. Right? The names are all over the place. So go in, use your best judgment, smart model with computer vision and find those that look like that, they're live stream documents. And then I'm saying cross reference those can be decks with the web pages on my website. Your everydayai.com then create an easy to digest report that goes over the 50 most popular trends, categories, stories, news, happenings, events, LLM updates, new AI models, etc. This should be angled as a starting guide for someone who is newer to AI but who wants to double down on their knowledge. Right? So even the last 50. Right. I said six months, it's like 150 episodes. That's a ton. Even myself, I've probably forgot 80% of what was covered here. So this is hopefully going to be a good guide. But now you see, deep research kind of creates this plan. So it's a couple steps. It gives me the different steps that it's going to do. It's going to extract information, then it's going to cross reference it with the website. It's going to survey additional high quality web sources, it's going to identify and rank the top 50 trends and then it's going to draft an easy to digest starter guide. So if I want to update that at any time, well, there is an update button Then essentially, what's going to happen here? I can click to add files or I can just essentially send a follow up prompt. All right, so I'm not going to do that because we're going to give it some time to cook. But now you see how this works in real time. You see some of the new features already and we're going to check in this at the end and kind of see some of the other features that are on the back end once a report has been produced. But you can see it's going. I can also click. I wish OpenAI made this a little more prominent. People don't know, but there's essentially this small little gray text at the bottom. So if you click on that, that's how you watch. That's how you watch it work live, right? So now I can see its research activity. I can see the steps that it's going through. This is important because sometimes maybe one of your apps have connected. Maybe the connection is stale and you need to go reconnect it and you think it's connected, but it's not, right? So essential, especially if you're using a lot of apps, you always want to keep an eye early on, right? Because you don't want to come back 45 minutes later and like, oh, frick, right? My, I changed my password two weeks ago and forgot to update the app. And you know, a lot of times deep research and AI models, when that does happen, they'll try, you know, crazy things to try to make up for not having access to certain information that you told it it had access to. And it'll try for sometimes way too long. All right, we'll check back in on that later. So let's go ahead and get back to learning. All right, so like I said, you can connect the apps and target specific websites and this is huge. All right, so I'm going to give you my use cases here in a minute. And I've already started to. But this is where I need you to think. What is it you do? I think so many knowledge workers out there, that's probably most of people listening to this podcast. If you're sitting in front of a computer all day, you know, you're probably using different apps, different pieces of software, right? As an example, maybe you're using Salesforce as your CRM. Maybe you're using HubSpot for email marketing. Maybe you're using, I don't know, ClickUp for project management, right? All of those that I just mentioned, they all have connectors, right? Maybe you use, you know, SharePoint in OneDrive, or I don't know, Gmail, Google Calendar. All of those things have connectors. So what do we as knowledge workers do? Well, we go visit Salesforce, we go look at Slack, we go look inside HubSpot at our last campaigns, right? We go check the project in ClickUp, we go, you know, log into our, you know, our, our OneDrive, our SharePoint, to check these files and folders. All of those things that we do, large language models, especially ones that are extremely powerful, like this new deep research from OpenAI. They do it better, they do it faster, they do it at scale. I don't care. Better than me, better than anyone. This is what, right, this is what I've been doing for 20 plus years of my professional career. Use different software, go find the information, right? Essentially you are synthesizing, personalizing and carrying context over from app to app. Maybe you're taking notes, maybe you're working on a document as you go along, but that's what we do, right? That's all we do. But now this is what Deep Research does, right? And it's not just OpenAI's version, right? Anthropic's version, very similar, Google's version, very similar. Perplexity's version, very similar. You know, they all have different, you know, apps or connectors. But one thing to keep in mind, which is very different than an agent, right? Because technically, at least, when OpenAI announced this, they said it's a Deep Research agent. Deep Research, this only has read access, okay? So it's not going to perform actions for you, obviously with their agent mode you can do that if you want to. And still using a lot of those apps, it's much slower. So Deep Research is not going to, you know, delete those files right in your CRM or it's not going to change the status of an important project. In your project management tool. It is read only, never write actions. That's important. All right, so let's go over now, now that you know how it works, and we'll check in on our little project to see if it worked. Now let's go over the use cases. So I have five that I think are great and I already gave you kind of my, you know, an example of my use case. But as I go over these five use cases, I want you to think about your work. Where do you spend your time? Even as you are using AI tools, right? Where are those inefficiencies? Still, I think with Deep Research, a lot of those are going to go away. I think it's an underused aside from canvas modes, right. In OpenAI ChatGPT, canvas mode in Google Gemini or the artifacts mode in Claude. Right. I think canvas modes or artifacts is underused and deep research is underused. And the biggest thing right is when you select those apps that you want to use or the websites. You can select multiple, you can select 10. These are the 10 apps that I use every day. Again, assuming you have permission to connect all these apps to your Chat GPT account. Right. Always do that first. That's what we do all day. We carry information from app to app, website to website in. Well, we create something in the end. So this is where it's huge. So use case number one is a memory powered planning for your next steps. Sometimes I like being very open ended with Chat GPT in terms of what you're working on and this becomes especially powerful as you Give access to ChatGPT to more information about you, about your goals, about your team, what you're working on, your company, et cetera. So this is if you have the personalization turned on, the memory turned on. Right? This is great. And you'd be surprised. So my example and I invite you to try something like this, just say based on everything you know about me, including memory, chat history, etc. Please chat, please plan out my next six months of what I should be focusing on in my case to grow everyday AI. Right? Start open ended, don't give it access to everything else. Right? Start open ended and then you can do a follow up prompt if you want to based on what it suggests and then give it access to certain information. I think one of the biggest mistakes people make when working with extremely powerful large language models is we think that we know the right answer. I always say say start wide, work your way too narrow. Okay. It's you're going to find out some great insights because one thing that I always say, especially if you're a power user, this is why I think advertising on the ChatGPT platform is going to be bananas. Good. They find gaps that you don't even know about. Right. If you're asking about A, B, C, D, E, F. Right. A large language model is going to be able to connect patterns across things that you may not even know about yourself, personally, professionally, career wise, your team, etc. Right. Because it understands the intent of what you're asking over and over. It's going to be able to spot patterns that you used to ask about but no longer do you know. It's going to connect these dots that you may not necessarily even know are there to connect. So start wide use case 2 essentially rag company search, right? This is not, again, this is not as good as a complete fully fledged vector database, but this is huge. And I think that, you know, using the deep research mode is going to give you a much more accurate and better cited report than using a normal thinking model and then using apps that way. So in this case I say restrict deep research to search only your, whatever it is, you know, your Google Drive and your company website as an example. And then the connected document stores just become these searchable sources for focused internal research. And then you can get a synthesized report built entirely from your organization own files and your files only. So my example of this, well, that's what I just showed you, right? I can't tell you if I'm being honest how valuable I think my canva account is and our website, right? There's a lot of inaccurate information out there when it comes to covering AI, right? And that's why I love this new sites feature as well. And you can include sites because I know as an example, you know, there's a lot of sites out there, web publications that you think, oh, by looking at their name. But then there's different versions of those, right? Different countries, different publications under that umbrella. I know at least a dozen that you would think would be very reputable. I know that they just turn out AI slop. It's full of hallucinations. Anytime I'm doing a normal search I say, oh, can't include that, right? I do hope that OpenAI allows you to instead of include websites one by one. I hope it allows you to exclude or blacklist websites one by one. That would make it a lot better. I did suggest that, you know, on Twitter and they actually liked the reply which they normally, you know, don't go through and like replies. So maybe that means it's coming, maybe it means nothing. But that's a great example is, you know, give it access to all of your company's data, only your company's website and that's it, go to town, right? This is a very quick version. Not as good again as a full retrieval. I'm going to generation set up, right? But it's 80% of the way there and 1% of the time the other thing that's great or something that's important to understand and know. Where does data come from? There's three sources training data, right? And we don't necessarily have control over that. We can kind of prompt our way around it. So large language models have training data. Then there's number two, the data that we connect, whether that's through, you know, apps formerly known as connectors. It's, it's something we upload in a chat window, a project file, etc. Then there's three websites, so training data, data we connect and websites. So this is a great way to control the latter two by just restricting them. And then you have a version of rag company search. All right, so let's go ahead, let's see how ours did. So yeah, unfortunately it's still, it's still working. All right. I wanted to be able to see if we could see some results here. Luckily, like any good, you know, person trying to cook in the kitchen with some AI stuff, I do have a version of this done. So yeah, the example I gave that was kind of the, you know, everyday AI retrieval, augmented generation. Right. Just pay only. Look at our wealth of canva decks and our website. It's still going, right? Still going. It's been going for quite a bit here and I can kind of check on it. Still cooking. But let's go ahead, let's look at a finished version here because we do have a finished version. Right. I put one cake in before we started. So this did take 35 minutes, which is probably one reason why we couldn't get it done in the live stream. Sometimes I've had ones that take, you know, 40 minutes and then the second time it takes 20 minutes. So I was giving it a try. But anyways, let's look now live at some of the new features and options. So there is this new kind of full screen view here and then on the right upper right hand side of the screen. Right. So hopefully podcast audience, simple enough to follow along. So you, when the deep research is done, you're going to click on it, it's going to put it into live, sorry, full screen mode. In the upper right hand corner you can download it, you can copy the contents. There's this little squiggly line. If you click that, that's how you get your sources. So these are the sources used. Okay. And then you can click the activity, which is it's kind of summarized chain of thought. This is how it thought about things, went through the sources. And this to me is fascinating. I spend way too much time reading summarized chain of thought, more than probably most humans. And then on the left hand side, this is the new table of contents, which is really cool. So especially if you have longer, you can just hover over these little toggles. Here on the screen and then you can scroll down and then if you want to click something, it's like a jump link. So I can click that and it goes straight there. So actually, let me see. Let's see how this turned out. Okay, so we have an executive summary. Let's see if it did everything we asked. Okay, so this is the great thing. It's giving sources. So this is meta. All right. There's something about deep research that just came up from my website in the deep research report. So I can click it. And then on the right hand side, it has all the sources that are used. So if there's ever anything that you want to verify, you can always click that, look at the sources and verify it. All right. This is not your initial chatgpt hallucination, right? 2020. This is not it always cited and sourced very well. All right, so let's go down, let's see how it did according to the directions I gave it. All right, so scope, sources and cross referencing. So it's telling me what it did, how it worked. All right. It kind of mapped out all the different canva decks. That's really cool too. So I can go check those out if I ever have any questions. Okay. This is nice. It gave me a visual synthesis of the six month landscape. I didn't even ask about this. This is pretty cool. Maybe kind of a visual of how things have changed over the last six months based on all the the data, which is very helpful. All right. It gave me a kind of what themes were talked about the most. Unfortunately, the x axis is a little messed up and it's overlapping. But if I wanted to, I could look at the code and kind of figure out what it's doing. So, you know, I didn't even ask it to create these visuals and it actually did a really good job of making this document more interactive. Right. It made some charts. Here's the ranked top 50 items with side ready briefs. Sorry, Slide ready briefs. Okay. This is, this is very cool. So found the 50 trends that have, you know, the 50 biggest trends over the last six months at least according to things that we've been talking about here on the website. This to me is such a valuable resource. Right. Imagine doing this for your company's website, for a competitor's website, for, you know, 10 industry websites that you follow all the time. Right. Maybe you've been out of the loop, been busy on a couple projects, been on vacation. Right. This is such a good way to do some simple sentiment analysis and catch up quickly. So it gave me kind of the recurrence signal strength, you know, things that were very high. So AI as an operating system, that's a trend. The number one trend. AI agents becoming the default workflow units. Very high trend. So this is really cool. So this is really good. Okay. And then we have slide ready briefs for ranks one through 50. So it gave me a nice write up on all 50 of those. Sheesh. This is good. This is nice. My gosh. Okay, I'm gonna read this, right? As crazy as it sounds like I told you, I don't remember everything I've talked about over the past six months. You know, sometimes I don't know, I feel humans, maybe it's because of AI or just attention spans in the Internet, but sometimes I feel like, you know, we have like a memory of a goldfish. This, this report to me is pretty freaking amazing. So, yeah, I don't know if, if you want access to the report, just go ahead, repost Today's show on LinkedIn and I'll send you this. Because as I'm scrolling through, this is actually very impressive and a very good resource to go through and read. Uh, so, yeah, uh, if you're listening on the podcast, we always have the LinkedIn link that you can just go and then repost this and I'll send it to you. Really cool. All right, let's wrap up. Let's go over our next use cases. So use case three, a competitor deep dive using your company contacts. So similarly, how I started the first use case by saying, hey, use everything you know about me. Same thing, use everything you know about my company. But then also combine your personal contacts, what your role is, and then your synced company data for competitor analysis. Then you can add your competitors websites, industry websites, et cetera. And then you can get a report that's mapping competitors against what matters to you and your specific company. Again, this is like as if you were hiring a consultant, but for you, right? Not for your company or for your department. And if you do take the time, and even if you go through maybe two or three iterations of providing feedback or steering it midway through, I think you will literally be shocked at the amount of information that you get out. Have you guys never done this? Sometimes I feel like I'm a crazy man because I'm like, why is no one talking about this and doing it non stop? It is so good, right? I can't lie. I think a good chunk of whatever success we've been able to have as a, you know, as a top AI podcast and I know that's kind of cringe to say. I think a lot of it is from doing things like this. Things that I'm telling you to, right? When I'm, when I talk about these use cases, these aren't just like random things I read about on the Internet. I'm like oh this is cool, go try it.
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These are things that I do all the time. And then like when I do them I'm like holy frick, that's amazing. I need to tell people, right? So you should be doing this. Use case 4 Industry SWAT built from your data and news. So kind of similar to 3, but more on the industry versus just competitors and just a SWOT, right? Strength, weakness Opportunity Threat Report. So this can use your chat history and company data to identify sector trends that are impacting you. Deep Research can scourge trending industry news filtered through your business context and then produce a SWOT analysis grounded in both your data and current market signals. The cool thing and I do have to do a little bit more research on this, but I'm pretty sure Deep Research does a great job with Boolean URLs, which is amazing because without being too dorky, what you can accomplish with some simple URL hacking, right? You can essentially have a dedicated up to date research assistant that you don't have to keep feeding, you know, different websites, right? If you know what you're doing around some simple Google search operators. Yeah, it's extremely powerful. Last but not least, or at least I do that all the time with GPT5.2 Pro and I have tested it a little bit in the new Deep Research but I got to do a little more testing to see if it is consistently handling that. And then last but not least, use case five, the follow up assistant that scours your inbox and calendar. This is huge. I miss so many opportunities, so many emails. I stink at it. Mainly because I get spammed, right? So my example here I said please carefully comb through the last six months of the connected Gmail inbox in Google Calendar. For Gmail, pay specific attention to my outbox as my inbox gets spammed a lot and the good majority of what lands in my inbox is not important. However, if I have replied to something via my outbox that means it is generally important for my Google Calendar. Please look to see what which meetings I've had with other people in the last six months and cross reference that with correspondence in my Gmail inbox. The goal is to both follow up on opportunities for Everyday AI where I may have dropped the ball or forgot to respond, as well as to re engage older conversations that may have already closed in theory, but may be worth revisiting. Please keep in mind all the contacts that you know about me as well as looking at the two attached informational sheets and what I've attached here is I essentially have these living, breathing markdown files that I always update anytime I'm working in really any large language model, both about everyday AI and about my role kind of, you know, my day to day, what it looks like. So I have two different markdown files about everyday AI and then about myself. So I mean y', all, I should actually spend way more time on this because there's no reason for me to suck at email. It's just more or less overwhelming, right? When I run these, it's like here's you know, 85 extremely important emails that you haven't got to right? Unfortunately they can't send or draft replies yet. But hey, maybe one day. All right, so that is a wrap. So now you know what is new in OpenAI's new updated deep research and five ways that you can use it today. So yeah, if you want to go check out that trend report, make sure to go share this and repost this on LinkedIn. And then 7 12, 7 13. Don't forget those numbers. That is the 2026 AI predictions and roadmap series. If you haven't listened to those, you have to then please go to your everydayai.com Sign up for the free daily newsletter. Thanks for tuning in for putting AI to work at Wednesday. Hope to see you back tomorrow and every day for more Everyday AI. Thanks y'. All.
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Episode Title: ChatGPT’s new Deep Research Update: 5 Ways You Can Use it Today
Podcast: Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast
Host: Jordan Wilson
Date: February 18, 2026
In this episode, Jordan Wilson explores OpenAI’s latest Deep Research update for ChatGPT, highlighting the major new features, model improvements, and five actionable ways listeners can leverage Deep Research right now to transform personal and work-related research tasks. The episode dives into why this tool is moving from “just a mode” to a full research platform, offers a user’s guide with live demonstrations, discusses real-world use cases, and provides insider tips to maximize value.
Overview of Improvements
Comparing Plans' Limits
Why It’s Now a Platform
“The ability to pause, redirect and interrupt this model in the middle is such a huge game changing option or feature.”
— Jordan Wilson (09:08)
Switching Between Research Models
Connecting Data Sources
Live Research Demo
Real-Time Monitoring
“If you’re not using a deep research tool daily and connecting your data on the front end, you are absolutely missing out... It is the best way to consume synthesized, well-sourced information at scale that is personalized for you, your use case, your business’s viewpoint, etc.”
— Jordan Wilson (11:23)
“One of the biggest mistakes people make with extremely powerful large language models is we think that we know the right answer. I always say: start wide, work your way to narrow.”
– Jordan Wilson (28:25)
“There’s no reason for me to suck at email. It’s just more or less overwhelming, right? When I run these, it’s like here’s 85 extremely important emails you haven’t got to, right?”
– Jordan Wilson (40:08)
Read-Only Limitation
“Deep Research, this only has read access, okay? So it’s not going to perform actions for you… not going to delete files or change statuses.” (24:49)
Prompt Engineering
Always “context stack” in your prompts and run Deep Research two or three times for best results (15:07).
Source Verification Made Easy
Full screen view with table of contents and quick-access source panel for fact-checking.
Wishlist: Excluding/Blacklisting Sites
Current update only allows including sites; blacklisting would further filter sloppier/hallucination-prone sources (34:41).
Not Just for AI Power Users
The new interface and model improvements make Deep Research accessible enough for business leaders and every-day knowledge workers to reap massive efficiency gains.
| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |:-------------:|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:47–13:21 | Deep Research update overview, model improvements, experience changes | | 13:21–25:32 | Demo: Running Deep Research, using new features, monitoring chain of thought | | 25:32–27:10 | Transition to use case discussion | | 27:10–30:21 | Use Case 1: Memory-powered planning | | 30:21–37:10 | Use Cases 2–3: Company search, competitor mapping | | 38:49–39:35 | Use Case 4: Industry SWOT from your data/news | | 39:35–40:15 | Use Case 5: Follow-up assistant for inbox/calendar |
OpenAI’s Deep Research update in ChatGPT (GPT-5.2) marks a pivotal change—transforming it from a chatbot research feature into a robust research platform. Jordan Wilson’s walkthrough demonstrates not just new UI/UX perks and model improvements, but also strategic, high-value workflows, from company knowledge mining to industry analysis and personal task management. Regular users and power users alike can leverage these new tools for actionable insights, reclaiming hours of manual research with better quality results.
Tip to Listeners:
Try out the platform’s new features and connect data sources relevant to you. For practical takeaways and a trend report demonstration, Jordan invites listeners to repost the episode on LinkedIn for a sample output.
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