Feature request: Endless Deep Research Mode (Start, Stop, and Continue buttons) 📚

ChatGPT Feature requests
1

Idea:

Imagine a button:
START DEEP RESEARCH :play_button:
…and it just keeps digging forever until you hit STOP :stop_button:

When you stop it → it summarizes everything it found :books::sparkles::magic_wand:

Immediate Effects: :books: It would gather huge volumes of sources continuously
:magnifying_glass_tilted_left: It could uncover rare, buried, obscure information
:hourglass_not_done: The longer you wait, the deeper the knowledge becomes
:video_game: You control how deep it goes :exploding_head:

What Makes It Powerful:

:hot_beverage: You could start it and walk away
:bar_chart: Come back later to a massive summary
:counterclockwise_arrows_button: Hit continue → it keeps expanding

Over time it could analyze:

  • thousands :page_facing_up:

  • hundreds of thousands :books:

  • potentially millions of sources :globe_showing_europe_africa: :milky_way:

Why This Would Be Revolutionary: :magnifying_glass_tilted_right: Finds info humans usually miss :exploding_head:
:counterclockwise_arrows_button: Lets you expand knowledge at will :man_mage::crystal_ball::magic_wand:
:video_game: Turns research into an interactive process
:rocket: Transforms searching into continuous discovery :ringed_planet::flying_saucer:
:chart_increasing: Knowledge keeps growing the longer it runs

What’s especially amazing is that a person could effortlessly research a topic for decades :hourglass_not_done::books::laptop: — something that hasn’t been possible before :exploding_head::sparkles::magic_wand::man_mage:.

2

Thanks for explaining this request: Add start, stop, summarize, and continue controls for open-ended continuous deep research. Current public guidance in Deep research in ChatGPT documents related functionality, while the additional capability described here remains useful feedback. We can’t promise implementation or timing. We’re closing this topic while keeping it visible for reference.