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  "channel_slug": "singularity",
  "channel_handle": "r/singularity",
  "title": "Why has progress on Deep Research products stalled?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1uujyic/why_has_progress_on_deep_research_products_stalled/",
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  "upload_date": "20260712",
  "published_at": "2026-07-12T16:22:07+00:00",
  "transcript": "Deep Research launched Feb 2025 and felt like a real step change. Every lab shipped their own version within months. Since then, the changes seem mostly incremental: a newer base model, MCP connectors, source restrictions, nicer report UI. Useful, but not another step change.\n\nWhat strikes me is that the known weaknesses from the launch post — hallucinated facts, trusting sketchy sources, poor uncertainty calibration — still show up in third-party benchmarks over a year later. The reports are impressive but you still have to verify everything, which eats most of the time savings.\n\nIs this a hard capability wall (telling good sources from confident SEO junk might just be really hard)? Did the labs shift focus to general agents and browsers, leaving research modes as a maintained feature rather than a frontier? Or is progress happening but invisible (fewer hallucinations and better source picking don’t demo well)?\n\nSo why has progress on this front stalled?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[53 upvotes] There’s actually been dramatic improvements on this front, and here’s why.\n\nDeep research is, fundamentally, just an agentic workflow. It’s a harness to get agents to explore the internet, identify sources, and compile it into a report. At the time that deep research first came out, it was one of the first officially supported agentic workflows.\n\nToday, however, agentic workflows are the default. Tools like Codex and Claude Code and Cowork are all designed to support flexible agentic goals. The reason why there’s been less focus on deep research is because deep research has been generalized into more customizable agentic workflows.\n\nIf you want to do deep research, you have a lot of options. You can prompt Claude Code to build a detailed PDF report on whatever you want. You can build a skill or plugin specifically for conducting deep research in the way that you prefer so that you can repeat the workflow across domains. You can turn to third parties that have built their own research harnesses on top of frontier model agentic capabilities.\n\n[22 upvotes] Have you seen the recent BrowseComp results of the frontier models? It's close to saturation. No need for deep research when simple models can locate all the hard to find information much more cheaply and quickly. \n\n[14 upvotes] the \"Pro\" versions of the GPT models are basically Deep Research. And they keep getting new versions with every new release. \n\n[8 upvotes] probably because information on web is turning shit. Garbage in garbage out",
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