OpenAI has launched Prism, a free AI-native workspace designed to help scientists write and collaborate on research papers, as artificial intelligence plays a growing role in accelerating scientific work. The cloud-based platform integrates GPT-5.2, the company’s latest model optimized for mathematical and scientific reasoning, directly into a LaTeX-native environment.
Prism is available immediately to anyone with a personal ChatGPT account, with access for users on ChatGPT Business, Team, Enterprise and Education plans expected to follow. The tool is aimed at reducing fragmentation in daily research tasks, which often require scientists to switch between multiple disconnected applications.
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“Despite rapid progress in AI, much of day-to-day scientific work still relies on tools that have not fundamentally changed for decades,” the company said in the press release, describing Prism as a first step toward integrating drafting, revision and collaboration into a single workflow.
Prism allows researchers to draft and revise manuscripts with full-document context, collaborate in real time with an unlimited number of co-authors, and search for and incorporate relevant scientific literature. The platform can also help generate and refactor equations, manage citations and convert handwritten equations or diagrams into LaTeX.
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The product builds on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform previously acquired by OpenAI, and reflects the company’s view that AI could begin transforming scientific research as early as 2026 by lowering barriers in routine work and allowing researchers to focus more on discovery.