- Prism combines Crixet’s LaTeX document preparation with GPT-5.2
- OpenAI says existing tools are highly fragmented, causing friction
- The app is free to use for personal plans – other plans and payment features are coming soon
OpenAI has launched Prism, a new app that it says will do for science what coding agents did for programming, and it’s all about piecing together scientific research with quotes and figures.
Prism is built on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform that OpenAI is also acquiring as part of the announcement. AI comes from the latest GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2 Thinking models, which are suitable for mathematical and scientific reasoning.
OpenAI criticized the existing scientific research stream as being highly fragmented, leaving developers to juggle multiple tools. “We’re still early days, but it’s clear that AI will play a meaningful role in how science evolves,” the company wrote.
OpenAI Prism launch
The ChatGPT maker explained that Prism will replace having to use multiple apps, such as PDF editors, reference managers and chat apps, which will ultimately increase productivity by putting all context in one place.
Some of the use cases that OpenAI describes in detail include drafting and revising papers, searching for and incorporating relevant literature, automatically building bibliographies, converting handwritten equations and diagrams directly to LaTeX, and collaborating in real time with co-authors and students.
“By 2026, we expect a comparable shift in science as artificial intelligence begins to meaningfully accelerate discovery in several ways, one of which is to reduce friction in the daily work of research,” reads the post, which compares the impending scientific revolution to the coding revolution we’ve already seen.
Best of all, Prism is set to be free for all users and will have a personal ChatGPT account, with OpenAI targeting that makes scientific research more accessible. It will also support unlimited projects and collaborators.
While educational plans don’t yet gain access to Prism, the company promises to add those plans as well as Business, Team, and Enterprise plans at a later date.
But while it’s free, as the product progresses, OpenAI expects to add more advanced features to paid plans.
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