Prism: AI Tool for Scientific Writing

OpenAI for Science is an initiative through which the company addresses scientists – and certainly wants to retain them. Now OpenAI is launching Prism, an AI-based workspace for scientific writing. This is because OpenAI expects that after the transformation in software development, a comparable transformation will now take place in science.

Prism was formerly Crixet and thus a LaTeX-based editor. OpenAI has acquired and renamed Crixet. AI functions based on GPT-5.2 have been added. Fundamentally, LaTeX is a free typesetting system that can handle very complex tasks much better. This is especially true for mathematical tasks. Many people will have already messed up a document because they wanted to change a small detail.

With Prism, for example, real-time collaborative editing is possible, as everything naturally runs in the cloud. One must therefore assume that OpenAI can view all content. The number of projects and contributors is unlimited. The service is free, all that is needed is a personal ChatGPT account to access Prism. Organizations cannot yet use the platform.

"AI-Native Workspace"

OpenAI speaks of an "AI-native workspace." AI is intended to accelerate scientific writing, according to the blog post. "Advanced reasoning systems like GPT‑5 help push the boundaries of mathematics⁠, accelerate the analysis⁠ of experiments with human immune cells, and drive experimental iteration⁠ in molecular biology." GPT-5.2 is the most advanced model for mathematical and scientific reasoning.

With Prism, one will no longer have to have ChatGPT and a separate writing tool open, but can use both in one program. This allows, for example, direct searching of specialist literature and related works. OpenAI cites arXiv as an example, a platform for pre-prints, not necessarily a comprehensive source for specialist literature.

As is well known, AI can also create diagrams and figures, which should then also be possible directly within the document.

(emw)