OpenAI is launching a new app today called Prism, hoping it will do for science what programmers like Claude Code and his own Codex platform did for programming.
Prism is based on Crixeta cloud-based LaTeX platform that the company announced today it has acquired. For the uninitiated, latex is a composition system for formatting scientific documents and journals.
Almost the entire scientific community relies on LaTeX, but this can make certain tasks, such as drawing diagrams using TikZ commands, time-consuming. Additionally, LaTeX is just one of the software tools that scientists can turn to when preparing to publish their research results.
This is where Prisma comes into play. Like Crixet before it, the app offers robust LaTeX editing and a built-in AI assistant.
While it was previously Crixet’s own Chirp agent, it is now called GPT-5.2 Thinking. The OpenAI model can help with much more than just formatting journals: in a press demo, an OpenAI employee used it to find and incorporate scientific literature relevant to the article he was working on, with GPT-5.2 automating the bibliography writing process.
“All of this does not relieve the scientist of the responsibility of verifying the accuracy of their credentials, but it can certainly speed up the process,” said Kevin Weil, vice president of science at OpenAI, when asked during the rally about the possibility of ChatGPT generating fake citations.
“We recognize that as AI becomes more powerful, concerns about its scale, quality and trust in the scientific community persist,” he later added. “In our view, the right answer is not to keep AI at arm’s length or let it work invisibly in the background, but to integrate it directly into scientific workflows in a way that maintains accountability and keeps researchers in control.”
Later in the same demo, the OpenAI employee used Prism to create a lesson plan for a graduate course on general relativity, along with a series of problems for students to solve. OpenAI anticipates that these features will help scientists and teachers spend less time on the most tedious tasks of their profession.
Prism is available to anyone who has a personal ChatGPT account. Includes support for an unlimited number of projects and employees.
OpenAI plans to soon offer the software to organizations with ChatGPT Business, Team, Enterprise, and Education plans. Crixet is not offered separately.
