AI app developer Hugging Face says it created an open-source AI research agent that can trade blows with OpenAI's latest Deep Research feature — in just 24 hours. The Sam Altman-led company released the feature, which "uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you," over the weekend. But it didn't take long for Hugging Face researchers to fully reverse engineer the flashy new feature, which is built on top of an existing AI model to provide new functionality to the user. "While powerful LLMs are now freely available in open-source, OpenAI didn’t […]