'We’re still early, but it’s clear that AI will play a meaningful role in how science advances': OpenAI launches free Prism app for scientific research

• Prism combines Crixet's LaTeX document preparation with GPT-5.2
• OpenAI says existing tools are highly fragmented, which causes friction
• The app is free to use for personal plans – other plans and paid features coming soon

OpenAI has launched Prism, a new app it says will do for science what coding agents did for programming, and it's all about putting together scientific research with citations and figures.

Prism is built on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform that OpenAI is also acquiring as part of the announcement. The AI comes from the latest GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2 Thinking models, which are suited to mathematical and scientific reasoning.

OpenAI criticized the existing scientific research flow for being highly fragmented, causing developers to have to juggle multiple tools. "We’re still early, but it’s clear that AI will play a meaningful role in how science advances," the ...