OpenAI has introduced Prism, a free, AI-native workspace designed specifically for scientists to write, revise, and collaborate on research papers. It is powered by GPT-5.2 (including its advanced “Thinking” variant), which OpenAI describes as its most capable model yet for mathematical and scientific reasoning.
Prism is now available to anyone with a personal ChatGPT account, offering unlimited projects and collaborators at no cost. OpenAI plans to extend access soon to organisations using ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Education plans.
The company said that while AI is poised to accelerate scientific progress, tasks like drafting manuscripts, refining arguments, handling equations and citations, and coordinating with team members still rely on fragmented tools. Scientists frequently switch between word processors, PDF viewers, LaTeX compilers, reference managers, and separate AI chat interfaces. Through Prism, these elements are unified into a single interface.
ChatGPT Prism: Key Features And Capabilities
Prism is a cloud-based, LaTeX-native tool that integrates GPT-5.2 into the research process. It works on a project, including the document's structure, surrounding text, equations, citations, figures, and overall flow, enabling improved assistance.
"Prism builds on the foundation of Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform that OpenAI acquired and has since evolved into Prism as a unified product," OpenAI wrote in its blog post.
Key capabilities of ChatGPT Prism include:
- Chatting with GPT-5.2 Thinking to explore ideas, test hypotheses, and reason through complex problems while maintaining context.
- Drafting and revising sections with the entire document (text, equations, citations, figures, and structure) as context.
- Searching for and incorporating literature (such as from arXiv) into the current work, then refining text based on added references.
- Creating, editing, refactoring, and reasoning over equations, citations, and figures.
- Converting handwritten whiteboard equations or diagrams into LaTeX code, eliminating manual recreation.
- Real-time collaboration with co-authors, students, or advisors, where edits, comments, and changes appear instantly.
- Applying modifications based on requests, without needing to copy-paste between tools.
- Optional voice-based editing for quick, hands-free changes.
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