New Delhi, Nov. 12 -- Powerful AI-based research assistants, dubbed "deep research" tools, from companies such as OpenAI, Google, Meta, Perplexity, and Alibaba, along with ResearchRabbit, STORM, Scite, Jenni, Paperguide, Elicit, Consensus, Paperpal, and other open-source platforms, are transforming how research is conducted, compressing tasks that once took years into hours.

For instance, Edison Scientific's Kosmos, launched on 7 November, claims to complete six months of research in a single day, reading 1,500 papers and producing structured analyses in one run. In theory, AI can now turn a single prompt into a full-fledged hypothesis, generate data, and draft a referenced paper. But while the technology dazzles with speed and scale, th...