Open Deep Research, developed by the smolagents team, is positioned as an exploratory tool aimed at improving web browsing and code execution for AI tasks. Despite not being ready for production, it aims to compete with notable benchmarks like OpenAI's Deep Research. Key aspects include improving speed and user experience, integrating vision models, and addressing safety in code execution. Discussions suggest a rapidly evolving landscape where open-source alternatives are expected to emerge swiftly, raising questions about innovation versus capability in AI.