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The Inventors of Deep Research

18 Feb 2025 24 published claims 2 attributable people

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01 / evaluation

Yeah. So the tricky thing about vision is I think the models are getting significantly better, especially if you look at the last six months, natively being able to do like VQA stuff, and so on.

“Yeah. So the tricky thing about vision is I think the models are getting significantly better, especially if you look at the last six months, natively being able to do like VQA stuff, and so on.”
Speaker
Aarush Selvan
Publisher
Latent Space

08 / belief

Do we, do we have like a, do we have like a, do we have like a, do we have like a, do we have like a new model is like a new model, produce really longer, many more steps, number of characters, like number of steps in case of the plan in the plans, it could be like, like we spoke about how it iteratively plans based on like previous searches, how many steps does that go on an average or some dev set. So there are some things like this you can automate, but beyond that, there are all generators, but we definitely do a lot of human evals and that we have defined with product about certain things we care about.

“Do we, do we have like a, do we have like a, do we have like a, do we have like a, do we have like a new model is like a new model, produce really longer, many more steps, number of characters, like number of steps in case of the plan in the plans, it could be like, like we spoke about how it iteratively plans based on like previous searches, how many steps does that go on an average or some dev set. So there are some things like this you can automate, but beyond that, there are all generators, but we definitely do a lot of human evals and that we have defined with product about certain things we care about.”
Speaker
Aarush Selvan
Publisher
Latent Space

11 / belief

Comparing and then, you know, covering the EU and then, yeah, like I said, like going into the meat production and then it'll also, what's nice is it kind of reasons over like why are there differences? And I think what's really cool here is like, it's, it's showing that there's like a difference in philosophy between how the U.

“Comparing and then, you know, covering the EU and then, yeah, like I said, like going into the meat production and then it'll also, what's nice is it kind of reasons over like why are there differences? And I think what's really cool here is like, it's, it's showing that there's like a difference in philosophy between how the U.”
Speaker
Shawn Wang
Publisher
Latent Space

13 / belief

Like some of these things, depending on how deep you want to go, you might just want to quite g thermometer versus like kick off another deeper search. And even from a UX perspective, I think the, the panel allows for this notion of, you know, not every fall up is going to take you.

“Like some of these things, depending on how deep you want to go, you might just want to quite g thermometer versus like kick off another deeper search. And even from a UX perspective, I think the, the panel allows for this notion of, you know, not every fall up is going to take you.”
Speaker
Aarush Selvan
Publisher
Latent Space

14 / commitment

You'd actually want the model to be like, okay, this is sufficiently different that I want to go do more deep research to answer this question. I won't find this information in what I've already browsed.

“You'd actually want the model to be like, okay, this is sufficiently different that I want to go do more deep research to answer this question. I won't find this information in what I've already browsed.”
Speaker
Aarush Selvan
Publisher
Latent Space

15 / commitment

I think the other part that's super important is just like we will reach the limits of the open web and you want to be able to like a lot of the things that people care about are things that are in their own documents.

“I think the other part that's super important is just like we will reach the limits of the open web and you want to be able to like a lot of the things that people care about are things that are in their own documents.”
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Publisher
Latent Space

19 / preference

I think when deep research really shines is there like multiple facets to your question and you spend like a weekend, you know, just opening like 50, 60 tabs and many times I just give up and we wanted to solve that problem and, and give a great starting point for those kinds of journeys.

“I think when deep research really shines is there like multiple facets to your question and you spend like a weekend, you know, just opening like 50, 60 tabs and many times I just give up and we wanted to solve that problem and, and give a great starting point for those kinds of journeys.”
Speaker
Aarush Selvan
Publisher
Latent Space

20 / evaluation

That was super counterintuitive for us. So actually, the first time I realized that, what you're saying is when I was talking to Jason Calacanis and he was like, do you actually just make the answer in 10 seconds and just make me wait for the balance?

“That was super counterintuitive for us. So actually, the first time I realized that, what you're saying is when I was talking to Jason Calacanis and he was like, do you actually just make the answer in 10 seconds and just make me wait for the balance?”
Speaker
Shawn Wang
Publisher
Latent Space

21 / preference

First, I think the thinking style models definitely help here because they are significantly better on how they reason natively and being able to draw these second order insights, which is like very premise.

“First, I think the thinking style models definitely help here because they are significantly better on how they reason natively and being able to draw these second order insights, which is like very premise.”
Speaker
Aarush Selvan
Publisher
Latent Space

22 / evaluation

Like, there are things that you might not optimally spend time verifying, even though the models like, like, this is a very common fact the model already knows and it's able to like reason over and balancing that out between trying to leverage the model memory versus being able to ground this in, is in, you know, some kind of a source is the challenging part. And I think as, as like you rightly called out with the thinking models, this is even more pronounced because the models know more, they're able to like draw second order insights more just by reasoning over.

“Like, there are things that you might not optimally spend time verifying, even though the models like, like, this is a very common fact the model already knows and it's able to like reason over and balancing that out between trying to leverage the model memory versus being able to ground this in, is in, you know, some kind of a source is the challenging part. And I think as, as like you rightly called out with the thinking models, this is even more pronounced because the models know more, they're able to like draw second order insights more just by reasoning over.”
Speaker
Aarush Selvan
Publisher
Latent Space
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