Research

Research plans your question, searches the live web, reads the best pages, and writes one report with its sources cited. Use it when a question needs more than a quick answer. You can run 5 research reports a day on every plan.

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   Open the + menu

   It's next to the message box.
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   Select Research

   The menu shows how many reports you have left today. A Research pill appears in the message box.
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   Ask your question and send it

   Be specific about what you want to know, and the time period or region if it matters.

Sometimes a chat reply suggests Research for a deeper answer. Select Research there to start one. To cancel before sending, select the × on the Research pill.

You can start Research in the middle of a chat. It reads the conversation so far and any files you attached, so "research that in more depth" works. For a quick follow-up on a report, just keep chatting.

It breaks your question into a few angles, runs up to 8 web searches across them, and reads up to 10 of the best pages in full before writing. You'll see each step as it happens: Planning research…, Searching the web…, Reading sources…, and Writing report….

The report arrives as a card that shows how many sources were read. Its shape follows your question: a comparison gets a comparison, a how-to gets steps, and a "what's happening with…" question gets a timeline of what's known. Most reports run a few hundred to about a thousand words.

• Numbered markers like [1] in the text show which source each point comes from.
• A Sources list at the end links to every page the report used.
• Where the sources disagree or leave a gap, the report says so.

A few minutes, because Viro searches and reads several pages before writing. You don't have to wait on the page. Research keeps running if you switch chats or close the app, and the finished report is saved to the chat where you started it. If you've turned on notifications, Viro lets you know when it's ready.

5 per day, on every plan. The count resets at midnight UTC. A report counts once its first search runs, so a request that fails before it starts doesn't use one. When you've used them all, Research is greyed out in the + menu with the message Daily research limit reached.

Each report is saved in the chat where you ran it, so it's in your chat history. To reuse a report elsewhere, select Copy under it.

Regular chat already searches the web for quick, current answers (see Web Search in Chat). Choose Research for comparisons, market and company research, policy questions, travel planning, and other topics where you want evidence from several sources. Reports are written by Viro AI, whichever model you've selected. Research isn't available in persona rooms.

Sources can be incomplete, outdated, or wrong. Check the cited pages before relying on important information.