United Kingdom, Jan. 28 -- OpenAI has unveiled a new AI-powered research workspace for scientists called Prism.

The software is available free to anyone with a ChatGPT account and is designed to function as an AI-enhanced word processor tailored to academic and scientific work.

Prism is tightly integrated with OpenAI's latest frontier model, GPT-5.2, allowing researchers to draft and revise papers, interrogate claims, and search for prior literature within a single web-based environment.

Unlike autonomous "AI scientist" concepts, OpenAI stresses that Prism is meant to operate under close human direction.

The company has said the goal is to speed up existing workflows by embedding advanced reasoning directly into the tools researchers ...