Google Unveils Deep Research and Max AI Agents

Google unveiled two advanced artificial intelligence research agents, Deep Research and Deep Research Max, on Monday, marking a significant upgrade to its autonomous research tools. Powered by the company's Gemini 3.1 Pro model, the agents enable users to generate comprehensive reports on specified topics by drawing from public web sources and proprietary enterprise data. The launch, available in public preview through paid tiers of the Gemini API, aims to streamline workflows in sectors like finance, healthcare, and market intelligence.

The agents build on a research tool Google introduced in December, which relied on the earlier Gemini 3 Pro model. Deep Research focuses on efficiency, offering lower latency and costs while delivering high-quality outputs suitable for real-time applications, such as interactive financial dashboards. In contrast, Deep Research Max prioritizes thoroughness, using extended computational resources for iterative reasoning and deeper analysis, ideal for background tasks like due diligence reports or biomedical literature reviews. Both can process multimodal inputs, including PDFs, spreadsheets, images, audio, and video, and integrate with internal...