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4 Lifechanging ChatGPT Features You May Not Know About (Feb. 2025)
ChatGPT has been releasing a ton of powerful features recently… Are you caught up?
Jordan Gibbs
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Feb 16, 2025
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It’s been a wild couple of months for ChatGPT. Here are some mind-blowing new features that you need to try right now.
1. Deep Research
Deep research is a feature that enables ChatGPT to use a web browser to do chain-of-thought research, meaning that it can do multiple layers of searching. This means it can do research in the proper sense; it can actually go down rabbit holes, make a plan, and even adjust its approach as it runs.
After using it these past weeks, I’ve seen it research things that would take a human hours to do in minutes.
Here’s a fun example: having it find a backpacking trail that I can take my beginner friend on:
As you can see, after reviewing21 sources it got me a super comprehensive report of many different trails I could check out with my friend — in a fraction of the time it would have taken me to do so.
The best part is that all this information is a diving board for more research. Just look at how much it did for me, even with such a simple prompt:
Insane amounts of information at your fingertips
Use Cases for Deep Research
Here is a brief list of ways you can use Deep Research:
- Keep up to date on software updates for tools you use
- Find products that do a specific task you need to be done
- Look at recent state-of-the-art science in a particular subject
- Gather a list of good resources for a research project
- Make a plan to procure an obscure good or product
- Monitor competitor websites and social media channels for strategic insights
- Analyze market trends and…
