It's been a couple of years since GPT-4 powered Bing, but with the various Deep Research products and now o3/o4-mini I'm ready to say that AI assisted search-based research actually works now simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/

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@simon re: the gemini vs chatgpt thing, I've been able to use 2.5 pro and 2.5 flash for a week now (on the free plan, though I have Google One storage). They both give similar results to the o3 query (and return faster). You do have to click "show thinking" to see what it searched.

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