"Prism builds on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company is announcing it acquired today. For the uninitiated, LaTeX is a typesetting system for formatting scientific documents and journals. Nearly the entire scientific community relies on LaTeX, but it can make some tasks, such as drawing diagrams through TikZ commands, time-consuming to do. Beyond that, LaTeX is just one of the software tools a scientist might turn to when preparing to publish their research."
"That's where Prism comes into the picture. Like Crixet before it, the app offers robust LaTeX editing and a built-in AI assistant. Where previously it was Crixet's own Chirp agent, now it's GPT-5.2 Thinking. OpenAI's model can help with more than just formatting journals - in a press demo, an OpenAI employee used it to find and incorporate scientific literature that was relevant to the paper they were working on, with GPT-5.2 automating the process of writing the bibliography."
""None of this absolves the scientist of the responsibility to verify that their references are correct, but it can certainly speed up the process," said Kevin Weil, vice president of science for OpenAI, when asked during the demo the possibility of ChatGPT generating fake citations. "We're conscious that, as AI becomes more capable, there are concerns around volume, quality and trust in the scientific community," he later added. "Our view is that the right response is not to keep AI at arm's length or let it operate invisibly in the background; it's to integrate it directly into scientific workflows in ways that preserve accountability and keep researchers in control.""
OpenAI released Prism, an app built on the acquired Crixet cloud-based LaTeX platform offering robust LaTeX editing and a built-in AI assistant. Prism uses GPT-5.2 Thinking as the assistant, replacing Crixet’s Chirp agent. The model helps with formatting, literature search, incorporation of relevant scientific papers, and can automate bibliography creation. LaTeX remains widely used in the scientific community but can be time-consuming for tasks like drawing TikZ diagrams. Prism aims to integrate AI directly into scientific workflows while preserving accountability and keeping researchers in control. OpenAI acknowledges risks around citation accuracy, volume, quality, and trust, urging researcher verification of AI outputs.
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