How AI is Changing the Way Scientists Work

OpenAI has launched a new tool called Prism, designed to assist scientists in their work. Built on top of Crixet, a cloud-based platform for LaTeX, which OpenAI has recently acquired, Prism offers a range of features to streamline scientific document creation.

Features of Prism

• LaTeX Editing: Prism is built on Crixet, a platform for formatting scientific documents using LaTeX, a system widely used in the scientific community.
• AI Assistant: Powered by GPT-5.2, the AI assistant can help with various tasks, such as:
• Finding and incorporating relevant scientific literature into a paper.
• Automating the process of writing the bibliography.
• Task Automation: Scientists can save time on tedious tasks, although they still need to verify the accuracy of the references.

Demo and Use Cases

During a demo, an OpenAI employee used Prism to:

• Create a lesson plan for a graduate course on general relativity.
• Generate a set of problems for students to solve.

Availability

• Personal Use: Prism is available to anyone with a personal ChatGPT account.
• Collaboration: It supports unlimited projects and collaborators.
• Organizational Use: OpenAI plans to make it available to organizations on various ChatGPT plans soon.
• Crixet: Crixet will not be offered separately.