Google launches Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents to automate complex research

THE DECODER / 4/22/2026

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Key Points

  • Google DeepMind has launched “Deep Research Max,” an AI agent built on Gemini 3.1 Pro that can conduct autonomous research across the public web and proprietary data sources.
  • For the first time, developers can connect financial feeds and other specialized data sources to the agent via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
  • The agents aim to automate complex research workflows, reducing the manual effort typically required to gather and synthesize information.
  • As with many new AI agent releases, the provided benchmarks reportedly lack full transparency, limiting independent verification of performance claims.

Google Deepmind is rolling out Deep Research Max, a new AI agent built on Gemini 3.1 Pro that runs autonomous research across the web and proprietary data sources. For the first time, developers can plug in financial feeds and other specialized sources through the Model Context Protocol. The benchmarks come with the usual lack of transparency.

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