View the world through Prism (or don’t).
OpenAI would like scientists to work through their latest research paper with ChatGPT as their co-author. On Tuesday, the company introduced Prism, which it calls an “AI-native workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research.”
The idea behind Prism, per OpenAI, is to give researchers a unified platform to work from while conducting research—an attempt to fix the fragmentation that currently occurs when scientists have to jump between different programs to open and edit PDFs, LaTeX compilers, reference managers, and chat services. (Of course, all of these tools are usually very good at their dedicated task rather than trying to be a solution to everything, which is why experts choose to use them.)
Prism, the company said, is built on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform that OpenAI acquired. It is powered by GPT-5.2 Thinking, which is the company’s most advanced model designed for handling extended tasks and reasoning. OpenAI said researchers should be able to draft and revise papers directly in Prism, search for relevant literature and context to cite, and use AI to “create, refactor, and reason over equations, citations, and figures.” It’ll also allow multiple users to make revisions and leave comments in real-time.
That all sounds lovely in theory, but it may not be all roses and scientific breakthroughs in practice.
