OpenAI just launched Prism, a free research tool that puts its most advanced reasoning model inside the scientific writing process. It aims to do for research what AI coding assistants did for software development over the past year. Here are the details:
- The tool came from OpenAI’s acquisition of Crixet, a cloud-based science writing platform, which it rebuilt around its latest GPT 5.2 reasoning model.
- Scientists can search for papers, auto-generate citations, and turn photos of whiteboard math into formatted equations, without leaving the document.
- OpenAI revealed ChatGPT fields over 8M weekly queries on hard science topics, suggesting researchers are already leaning heavily on AI.
- The free tool has no caps on team size or projects, a departure from typical expensive academic software pricing models.