January 28th message, todayOpenAI The official launch of a new scientific writing andCollaboration tool Prism, a free cloud workspace driven by GPT(5.2) and home-grown supported LaTeX, is open to all ChatGPT personal account users, with no ceiling on the number of projects and the number of collaborators。
Prism's central location is "AI Scientific Writing Environment". It combines LaTeX editing, literature search, reference management, formula processing, real-time collaboration with the depth reasoning capability of GPT > 5.2 on the same platform to address the long-standing fragmentation of tools for scientific writing。
It was suggested that Prism could do the following:
In-depth dialogue with GPT – 5.2 Thinking - to inspire inspiration, validate scientific assumptions in a given scientific context, and systematically advance complex scientific challenges
WRITING AND REVISING PAPERS BASED ON FULL-TEXT BACKGROUND – AI ALLOWS FOR IN-DEPTH IDENTIFICATION OF THE CURRENT CONTEXT, INCLUDING TEXT CONTENT, MATHEMATICAL FORMULAE, REFERENCE LITERATURE, CHART DATA AND STRUCTURE LOGIC OF THE ARTICLE AS A WHOLE
Retrieving and integrating relevant literature in conjunction with current manuscripts - supporting the retrieval of relevant literature from platforms such as arXiv and its integration into the current context; AI will also assist in the targeted revision of the content of the paper based on newly discovered relevant studies
CROSS-CHAPTER PROCESSING FORMULAE, QUOTATIONS AND CHARTS – AI IS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND IN DEPTH THE CORRELATION LOGIC OF THESE ELEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE PAPER
Convert the whiteboard formula and the chart to LaTeX – saves you hours of time to write the TikZ command manually
Real-time collaboration with co-authors, students and mentors - all editing, comments and revisions are synchronized in real-time
(a) Directly modify the document in situ - there is no need to copy/ paste the contents between the editor and the chat tool
You can choose to use voice editing to make changes more responsive — without interrupting writing or reading ideas, but with simple voice commands。
OpenAI indicates that Prism can work in the context of the entire paper, understand the logical relationship between the structure of the chapter, the mathematical formula, the chart and the reference literature, and can automatically complete the optimization of the format, quote generation and cross-chapter content updates。
Prism's launch is directly related to OpenAI's acquisition of LaTeX platform Crixet last year. The official confirmation that Prism is based on the cloud writing infrastructure of Crixet and further embeds GPT-5.2 in the scientific work stream to make it a unified AI collaborative space。
At the functional level, Prism supports an unlimited number of real-time collaborations that provide the capability of auto-compilation, instant previews, version elimination, etc., aimed at reducing the time consumption of scientific teams in document management and tool switching。
The OpenAI product owner, Kevin Weil, said on X that in 2025 AI had changed its software development, and this year it will be a similar turning point for scientific research。
He revealed that ChatGPT received about 8.4 million science-related questions per week, involving 1.3 million users, indicating that the demand for AI tools in the scientific field was growing rapidly。
Prism is now available free of charge to all ChatGPT users of personal accounts, and will gradually support Business, Team, Enterprise and Education. OpenAI states that it will be followed by the introduction of a more advanced scientific AI function for paid users。