# Open-source DeepResearch - Freeing our search agents

DevFeed: [Open-source DeepResearch - Freeing our search agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/open-source-deepresearch-freeing-our-search-agents-7414.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/open-deep-research>)

Author: Aymeric Roucher; Albert Villanova del Moral; merve; Thomas Wolf; Clémentine Fourrier

Published: 2025-02-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [gaia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gaia.md>), [smolagents](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/smolagents.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>), [AI Chat](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-chat.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-assistants](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-assistants.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [smolagents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/smolagents.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes an effort to reproduce OpenAI's Deep Research system and open-source the agentic framework behind it. It explains how an LLM-based framework can browse the web, read PDF documents, use tools, and organize actions into multiple steps, with performance evaluated using the GAIA benchmark. The article highlights smolagents and reports substantial performance improvements from adding an agentic framework, while noting that the work is still in progress.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.