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⏳ Timestamps

00:00 - OpenAI’s $200 Deep Research Plan vs Free & Affordable Alternatives

01:05 - Google Was First to Release Deep Research in December 2024

02:21 - How to Access & Use Google Gemini Deep Research

04:28 - Comparing Google Gemini, Perplexity, & OpenAI Deep Research

07:39 - Sponsored Segment: Stride Agents AI-Powered Appointment Setters

09:21 - Research Speed & Source Comparison: OpenAI vs Gemini vs Perplexity

12:14 - AI Research Tool Rankings & Best Choice for Your Needs

15:20 - Open Source & Budget-Friendly Deep Research Alternatives

17:36 - Join the AI Community & Business Growth Opportunities

18:25 - Final Thoughts: Choosing the Right AI Research Tool

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all right guys so lately on this channel

we've been covering open ai's $200 a

month plan which includes deep research

within it it also includes a lot of

other things like 01 Pro Sora Etc but

deep research is one of the most

powerful things that I've been using

within this plan and a lot of people

have been talking about it now of course

not everyone wants to Fork up $200 a

month for open AI so we've also been

covering different open source

alternatives on this channel we've

covered open- Source deep research webui

deep research another rapper which is a

gooey for open- Source deep research we

covered skira and we also just covered

perplexity which released their deep

research model yesterday so it seems

like everyone is talking about deep

research and frankly every company or

llm or whatever seems to be releasing

their own version of Deep research and

in fact they're literally calling it

deep research now the beauty with these

open source tools of course is that they

are free and you don't have to pay $200

a month and perplexity even has a good

free tier for their deep research and

then if you want to pay for their pay

plan it's only $20 a month now there's

been so much hype around open ai's deep

research that a lot of people seem to

forget that they are not the first one

who actually came out with a deep

research tool this was in fact to my

knowledge Google who came out with their

deep research as you can see they posted

this blog post try our deep research and

our new experimental Gemini model uh in

your AI assistant and this was posted

December 11 2024 so over two few months

ago they had their deep research

released and Google is definitely a

company when it comes to the AI space

that a lot of people have been sleeping

on and I've said this many different

times you definitely do not want to

sleep on Google they have the Google

Suite with Google Docs everyone uses

Gmail they have notebook LM they've

really been Innovative in this space and

of course they were known as one of the

most dominant companies in the AI space

until open AI came out with chat GPT so

in today's video we're going to be going

over Google's Gemini Advanced deep

research testing it out seeing its

capabilities as well as comparing it to

some of the other deep research tools

such as open ai's deep research and

we'll even compare it briefly to

perplexity deep research we're going to

do a deep dive and see exactly which

deep research tool you should use so

let's dive right into it all right guys

so all links I cover in today's video

will be linked down below now in order

to use deep research you need to be on

Gemini Advanced so you can click here in

one of the links I'm going to leave Down

Below on how to use Gemini um with deep

research um I'm also going to just leave

the direct upgrade link so you can

upgrade to Google Gemini and you're

going to need to upgrade to Google

Gemini now for me I don't know if it's

going to be the same for everyone um

there was a one month trial so you can

literally try it out and you could

cancel this if you want but from what I

can see here the plans at least the one

that I'm on is

$26.99 Canadian so maybe about around 20

bucks USD so it's around the same price

as chat GPT Plus for Google's um plan

right here and of course you get access

to notebook LM you get access to Google

GP research you get access to a bunch of

different tools which is substantially

less of course than open ai's $200 a

month price tag which is 10 times more

so it's going to be about the same price

as perplexities deep research which is

about 20 bucks give or take that is of

course if you're paying for the Pro Plan

now perplexity has always been really

good with researching if you've used

perplexity you know this so I'm just

telling you kind of the uh edges that

some of these tools may have and then

Google of course is a massive massive

search engine the biggest search engine

in the world so you would think and

assume that they have um really good

researching capabilities when it comes

to scraping the web searching the web

and that's not to count out open AI deep

research this thing is definitely a

Powerhouse and if you've used it or seen

me use it or someone else use it you'll

definitely know that that is the case

Okay so once you actually upgrade to

Gemini Advanced you can simply just go

to gemini.com like I said all the links

will be linked down below and like I

said if you just want to test this out

there should be a free month trial that

you can use so you can experiment with

uh this deep research if you want to see

what is the best deep research for you

um once you're on the Gemini Pro Plan

you'll see that you have access to as

well different models different other

things as well but we're going to be

focusing on the 1.5 Pro deep research

now I think it's going to be really cool

once we actually get deep research with

2.0 as well that's going to be awesome

because you know we obviously want a

stronger model the stronger the better

and once we click on deep research here

you can really just ask at anything so

my prompt here is I'm doing an in-depth

comparison video between open ai's deep

research and Google Gemini deep research

and also perplexity deep research please

make it in-depth and cover everything

perplexity and Google are about $20 per

month and opening eyes is $200 so please

let me know who should choose what and

in which specific use case we're going

to go ahead and click on send here we

can see here just a second all right so

the good thing about Google Gemini's uh

deep research is it's going to show you

the research plan right here so deep

research tools compared um research

websites so I'm going to do in-depth

comparison between blah blah blah blah

blah you can go ahead read this and

you'll see that this is the research

plan here so step one find detailed

information on each project a BC for

each uh deep research and then two for

each product find the following

information features and capabilities

pricing strengths and weaknesses target

audience user reviews compare and

contrast different things you know we

can see all the different steps there's

seven steps here and the cool thing is

you can actually either edit the plan

like if I click edit plan like this it's

going to say okay here's the plan what

do we want to change um or you could

have just said start research all right

so I'm actually just going to say that's

perfect with the plan that it generated

and it's going to say just a second and

now it is starting its deep research we

can see here it's going right now and

it's pulling a bunch of different

websites so researching 14 different

websites already and while this is

loading I'm going to go ahead and do a

perplexity search right now using their

deep research around the exact same

topic right here and if you didn't see

my video on perplexities deep rese

search definitely check it out yesterday

okay so we're going to use this exact

same prompt right here and we're going

to go ahead and click on search now

there's a lot of different steps that go

within the perplexity deep research as

well like I said if you want more of an

in-depth uh video surrounding the

perplexity one check out my video

yesterday but you can actually watch the

history right here as it's going through

doing different queries getting

different results right here and reading

those results and then getting key

learnings and then doing additional

steps right here and incorporating those

learnings that it just got into the next

query so now we have Google Gemini as

well as perplexity going right now next

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okay so the one thing that I really like

about opening eyes deep research is once

you send it in it's going to say that

sounds great you know here's what we're

going to do um could you clarify a few

key points so it's going to actually ask

you questions about your prompt to gain

context this is something very important

and something that I really really like

about uh opening eyes deep research and

some of the open source ones I showed

you do do that but some of the ones that

we've done videos on this last week

actually don't do that which I don't

like like perplexities doesn't do that

so you're going to have to keep that in

mind and give it more context Google's

kind of does that where I mean it shows

you a plan which is nice it doesn't ask

you questions but I do like how it shows

you that plan and of course Google came

out with deep research so I do think

that open AI did get a lot of different

ideas or maybe many different ideas from

Google's deep research okay so I'm just

going to say all of that just make it

very in depth just for the sake of this

video okay and now it has started

conducting its deep research all right

so while this is going let's check back

on Gemini right here so Gemini is about

34 of the way done and perplexity is

done so perplexity got done very very

quick and look we can see our actual

deep research video um that was made

yesterday right here showing in the

search results which is cool so we can

see a comprehensive comparison right

here executive summary technical

architecture between the models so they

say opening eyes deep research is the

gold standard and analytical depth

powered by 03 mini architecture we have

Google Gemini research ecosystem

integration leader so that is definitely

true they their ecosystem just makes

Google um you know have a really nice

advantage over other AI companies

because something like anthropic or

Claude they don't have something like

Gmail or open a doesn't have that stuff

at least yet so this is something where

Google has been building up this user

base and they're so have such a huge

user base so I think that's such a big

advantage that they just integrate AI

within their current tool stack and then

perplexity deep research so speed and

accessibility Champion so that that's

fair enough like it is very quick so if

you want deep research that is quick

perplexity actually could be a good tool

for you especially since there's a free

plan that gives you 15 searches a month

which is more than open AI 100 searches

a month for their $200 month plan and

then their pay plan gives you a bunch

more so very lightweight performance

benchmarks across domains and if you did

see like I mentioned in my other video

perplexity um their deep research had

some really cool benchmarks and then

business market analysis educational use

cases cost benefit analysis right here

so you can see right here um and then

limitations and risk strategic

recommendations the future outlook

conclusion okay so if we go ahead and

copy this uh output right here and paste

it into our word counter we can see that

it has 982 words and

7,914 characters okay so opening I still

is analyzing right here doing its

research so far it has 21 sources and

you can see here with perplexity we got

35 different sources which is very

indepth and you can see all the

different steps it took all the

different queries so I do like it that

it has that history if we come back to

Google Gemini we'll see that it is

actually done here so I would say

perplexity took maybe 3 4 minutes max

Google Gemini probably took at least 7

to 9 minutes I would say and we can go

ahead and see our entire out put right

here now the one thing is it's kind of

weird with this like you can't scroll to

see it like this is kind of annoying I

don't know if that's just my interface

or whatnot but the one cool thing is yes

you can copy it right here but I really

like how you can just simply open this

in docs right here all right so now we

have it open in our docs right here and

Google Gemini just in general has a nice

interface when you do this because you

can access Gemini right here within your

docks um you can actually access this

for free now which is really cool so if

we wanted to make changes we could of

course do that back over in Google

Gemini interface or within Google Docs

we could ask it about the docs and

whatnot so you can see here we have open

AI deep research so we called it it did

the same thing calling this the

PowerHouse and I can definitely agree it

is really just the PowerHouse Google

Gemini the Speedy synthesizer so nice

and then perplexity the budget friendly

option so it seems like it's putting

perplexity last place and Google Gemini

second um I would say and honestly in

terms of indepth researching cap cap

abilities I would say it's actually

probably true like in in terms of just

looking at this output at least choosing

the right deep research tool we can see

a nice graph here or a table um we can

see a conclusion and we can see work

cited so we can see all the different

citations right here that it used which

is really nice now the one thing that's

kind of annoying is I know when it was

searching like even before I did a

search before this video and it had like

50 uh sources it was pulling from now I

don't see where okay okay actually here

it looks like we can click on this um

and see some of the citations where

different stuff is coming from it won't

let me scroll like I told you guys

before and it's not showing me any place

where I can see the history if I'm

missing something let me guys let me

know but I do really like when it shows

like the history I also really like when

it shows how long it took but if we

paste this over into the word counter we

can see that it's

2,822 words and

20827 characters so it's about three

times more than perplexity output in

terms of size okay now let's take a look

at opening eyes output the big

Powerhouse so we can see here that this

took 7 minutes um and got 21 sources so

it took around the same time as Google

Gemini and we can see that let's see how

in-depth this is I'm going to assume

that this is very indepth and it looks

super in-depth for those of you have

seen my other videos that I've been

covering uh open AI deep research is

always super super long if you tell it

to be and very very indepth like it goes

over every single little thing um I'm

just curious to see how long this is so

wow yeah this is

11,181 words

73,4 7 characters so by far the longest

it's 11 times bigger than perplexity and

about four times bigger than Gemini now

of course size isn't everything but

let's take a look at some of the uh

details within this output so we can see

a comparison overview here accuracy and

depth of responses within all the

different sections we can see all the

different citations which I really like

we can see response speed and processing

capabilities very in-depth user

experience and interface design source

citation and referencing so each section

is very long price and cost

justification so it goes very in depth

even on the littlest of things we can

see a table overview right here specific

use cases right here real world query

testing and examples so scientific

research query um business intelligence

query legal policy analysis query and

then a conclusion right here so very

very indepth um definitely I would give

the win to open ai's deep research in

terms of quality of output um Google

Gemini did a good job too I think this

is in terms of bang for your buck if

you're getting like if you're you know

on a budget and you just want to spend

bucks or even just try the free um trial

if you haven't used this already then

this is something that actually could be

um very useful if you haven't used it

yet and then of course for plexity on

the free plan for smaller researching

tasks um that don't require super super

in-depth research I'd say it's pretty

good as well but honestly open AIS is

really just like I said a Powerhouse

when it comes to um these deep

researching tasks and getting very

quality output and if you want to do a

deep dive into this actual um output I

got here and review it yourself and let

me know what your thoughts are in the

comments down below I'm going to leave a

link to this document Down Below in the

description and let me know what your

favorite deep researching tool is if you

don't know guys every day for the last

week we've pretty much done a video on

some sort of deep researching tool so

check some of those out check out some

of the open source Alternatives and let

me know what your favorite one is what

you've got the best outputs with if you

tried any different techniques or

strategies I'm really interested to hear

what you guys say and if you want me to

do a video on any specific comparisons

or or any other deep research tools I

may not know of that you guys found let

me know in the comments down below

because I'm really enjoying doing these

type of videos around deep research cuz

I've been personally using it in my life

and in my business and it's actually

really just gamechanging so if you have

200 bucks and it's not a big deal for

you to spend that type of money a month

on something like this and you run a

business or you're into doing sort of

research or whatever um it could

definitely be justified I would say it's

100% justified in my opinion for

something like this but if you don't

need huge in-depth research and you just

need something that's really really good

um at a lower cost then something like

Google Gemini is obviously um a good

choice perplexity as well or if you want

to try something out that's 100% for

free on their hosted version at the

moment at least skura is something that

you can check out watch my video on that

and then these open source ones are

really good as well I definitely

recommend checking all those out too

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