OpenAI Launches Prism, a Free AI Platform for Scientific Writing and Collaboration
OpenAI has launched Prism, a cloud-based research workspace that integrates scientific writing, collaboration, and advanced reasoning powered by GPT-5.2, aiming to streamline fragmented research workflows from drafting and citation management to co-author coordination.
"We're introducing Prism, a free, Al-native workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, powered by GPT-5.2. Prism offers unlimited projects and collaborators and is available today to anyone with a ChatGPT personal account. Prism will be available soon to organizations using ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Education plans," said the company.
What is Prism?
Prism is designed to centralize the entire scientific writing workflow, allowing researchers to draft, revise, collaborate, and access AI support without switching between multiple tools.
With GPT-5.2 Thinking integrated directly into the workspace, users can brainstorm ideas, test hypotheses, and reason through complex problems while the AI has full context of the document, including equations, figures, citations, and structure. Prism also supports literature search within the platform, converts whiteboard equations or diagrams into LaTeX, and enables in-place editing with optional voice-based commands.
How does it work?
As most research work is scattered across too many tools, a researcher has to jump between Word documents, Google Docs for writing, PDFs for reading papers, LaTeX tools for equations, reference managers for citations, and separate AI chat tools for help. Instead of using AI as a separate chat window, Prism lets researchers use AI inside their paper itself. It aims to bring all these research tasks into one connected space.
Prism is free to use, and anyone with a ChatGPT account can start writing immediately. There are no subscriptions or seat limits. By making high-quality scientific tools easier to adopt and broadly available, we hope to enable more researchers-across institutions, disciplines, and career stages-to participate fully in the scientific process.
Key features include:
Drafting and revising papers with full context, including equations, citations, figures, and overall structure
Integrated GPT-5.2 Thinking for idea exploration, hypothesis testing, and complex reasoning
Built-in literature search, allowing users to find and incorporate relevant research (e.g., arXiv) without leaving the platform
Equation and diagram support, including conversion of whiteboard sketches into LaTeX
Real-time collaboration with unlimited co-authors, students, and advisors
Voice-based editing for quick changes without disrupting workflow
