The article discusses four open-source AI research agents that serve as cost-effective alternatives to OpenAI’s Deep Research AI Agent. These alternatives offer robust search capabilities, AI-powered extraction, and reasoning features, allowing researchers to automate and optimize their workflows without incurring high costs.
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, released a web crawler called Bytespider that scrapes online content at a much faster rate than competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic. This aggressive scraping is aimed at improving ByteDance's generative AI models.
This post explores using GPT-4o's structured output feature for web scraping, highlighting its strengths, limitations, and cost considerations.
