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On 2026-07-21 @AIFrontliner claimed OpenAI Deep Research, Google Gemini…

2026-07-21 · 14:55 UTC ·@AIFrontliner ·0 min read

Brief

AIFrontliner claims Octen returns a full, source-backed report in under three minutes and outperforms OpenAI Deep Research, Google Gemini, Anthropic's Grok, and Perplexity by 10–17 points on the DeepResearch Bench, while those four allegedly take up to an hour on a single research task. The post references Kuan Zou's thread about building the 'FASTEST search on Earth.'

Why it matters

On 2026-07-21 @AIFrontliner claimed OpenAI Deep Research, Google Gemini, Anthropic's Grok, and Perplexity can take up to an hour to complete a single research task.

Key details

  • Octen reportedly returns a full, source-backed report in under 3 minutes and scores 10–17 points higher than those four systems on the DeepResearch Bench.
  • The author states Octen is both faster and more accurate, citing Kuan Zou's (@KZouAPT) claim of having built the 'FASTEST search on Earth.'
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OpenAI Deep Research, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity take up to an hour on a single research task.

Octen returns a full source-backed report in under 3 minutes and scores 10 to 17 points above all four on DeepResearch Bench.

Faster and more accurate at the same time is almost unheard of, see the results:

Kuan Zou (@KZouAPT)

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We stayed quiet and built the FASTEST search on Earth

Search was built for humans. You type one query, scan the results, refine, and try again.

Thirty years of infrastructure is designed around that loop.

AI agents DON'T work that way. An agent wants to

— https://nitter.net/KZouAPT/status/2079569508549673409#m