Artificial intelligence may be more than a quarter of the way to surpassing the boundaries of human knowledge. OpenAI’s new autonomous agent, deep research, has stormed past competing models and set a new standard on Humanity’s Last Exam, a global benchmark created to determine when AI can answer questions on any topic better than a world-class expert in the field.
Deep research successfully completed 26.6% of the recently developed test, which consists of over 3,000 questions across hundreds of subjects ranging from rocket science to analytic philosophy. Powered by OpenAI’s frontier o3 model, the AI agent can synthesize a wide range of information and complete multistep research within five-to-30 minutes, its creators say.
