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A tweet highlights that Stanford researchers built a free version of Deep Research a year before OpenAI and Perplexity launched theirs, referencing a paper published in February 2024.

Well, maybe the real point is that interesting new research and product directions get explored by us and other university research labs first! 🤔
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Well, maybe the real point is that interesting new research and product directions get explored by us and other university research labs first! 🤔

Nav Toor (@heynavtoor): Stanford built a free version of Deep Research a year before OpenAI and Perplexity launched theirs.

Six researchers at Stanford published it: Yijia Shao, Yucheng Jiang, Theodore Kanell, Peter Xu, Omar Khattab, and Professor Monica Lam.

The paper went up in February 2024. OpenAI

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