IBL News | New York
Hugging Face cloned OpenAI’s agent “Open Deep Research” within 24 hours after its launch, and it was freely available to open-source developers.
This agent autonomously browses the web and creates research reports.
The code, posted publicly on GitHub, received great responses from developers. It also opened positions for engineers to help expand the project’s capabilities.
Hugging Face‘s researchers said, “While powerful LLMs are now freely available in open-source, OpenAI didn’t disclose much about the agentic framework underlying Deep Research. So we embarked on a 24-hour mission to reproduce their results and open-source the needed framework along the way!”
A core component of Hugging Face’s reproduction was the open-source “smolagents” library, which uses what they call “code agents” rather than JSON-based agents.
The developers behind Open Deep Research built off of the work of others, which shortens development times.
They used web browsing and text inspection tools borrowed from Microsoft Research’s Magnetic-One agent project in late 2024.
