I was chatting with a friend who’s an entrepreneur about AI workflows and learning tools. He told me about a new product from Google. Gemini Advanced just released its deep research feature, an AI research assistant. It uses Google’s Gemini large-language models to research complex topics on the internet and generate a comprehensive report of its findings. Google describes it as an “agentic system that uses Google’s expertise of finding relevant information on the web to direct Gemini’s browsing and research.” My friend told me a story about how he used it to help him learn about a topic. The tool provided him with a thirteen-page report that got him up to speed on the topic quickly.

What I like about this tool is that it gives you a step-by-step plan for how it plans to research the topic before it starts, and you can edit the plan if you need to. The tool then begins researching by searching for phrases, learns from those searches, and then searches for new phrases to learn more. It concludes by compiling everything it learned in a single document, which can be exported in a Google Doc. Google's blog post goes into more detail and includes a demo. The downside is that the tool costs $20 per month. But you can try it for free for 30 days, which is what I’m doing.

Researching things online can be a pain; it’s not something everyone is good at. I’m excited about this tool because it has the potential to help everyone efficiently find the information online that’s helpful to them.