OpenAI just dropped Prism, a free AI-native workspace that plugs GPT-5.2 directly into the scientific writing process. No more juggling between LaTeX editors, PDF viewers, and chat apps—Prism puts everything in one cloud-based, LaTeX-native environment where the AI understands your paper’s full context, from equations to citations. You can brainstorm with the model, draft and revise with the whole document in mind, search arXiv for relevant literature, and even refactor equations. It’s built on the bones of Crixet, a cloud LaTeX platform OpenAI acquired, so the collaboration backbone is mature. Prism is available now for anyone with a ChatGPT personal account, and enterprise customers get it soon. Why it matters: By removing the friction of scattered tools, Prism could finally make AI a seamless part of the daily scientific grind, not just a flashy demo tool—potentially accelerating how research gets written and shared.