OpenAI Launches Free AI-Native Workspace for Science Writing and Collaboration

OpenAI has introduced a free, artificial intelligence (AI)-native workspace designed to help scientists write and collaborate on research.

Dubbed “Prism” and launched Tuesday (Jan. 27), the workspace is powered by GPT-2, offers unlimited projects and collaborators, and is available to anyone with a ChatGPT personal account, OpenAI said in a Tuesday blog post.

Prism is designed to address the fragmentation currently seen in the everyday work of research, according to the post. Researchers use disconnected tools to do things such as drafting papers, revising arguments, managing equations and citations, and coordinating with collaborators, the post said.

The workspace solves this by using the document preparation system LaTeX, per the post. Specifically, it builds on the cloud-based LaTeX platform Crixet, which OpenAI acquired.

“[Prism] brings drafting, revision, collaboration and preparation for publication into a single, cloud-based, LaTeX-native workspace,” OpenAI said in the post. “Rather than operating as a separate tool alongside the writing process, GPT-5.2 works within the project itself — with access to the structure of the paper, equations, references and surrounding context.”

While Prism is free to use and available to anyone with a ChatGPT account, OpenAI plans to make more powerful AI features available through paid ChatGPT plans in the future, per the post.

“In 2025, AI changed software development forever,” OpenAI said in the post. “In 2026, we expect a comparable shift in science, as AI begins to meaningfully accelerate discovery in several ways, one of which is reducing friction in day-to-day research work.”

In another, separate initiative, it was reported Wednesday (Jan. 21) that OpenAI is working to expand the reach of its products in countries without widespread AI access. The firm’s “OpenAI For Countries” initiative aims to push governments to construct more data centers and lobby for greater AI use in fields like health, education and disaster preparedness.

On the same day, it was reported that OpenAI is looking to increase its market share among enterprise clients. OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said that she expects the share of OpenAI’s business that is made up of enterprise customers to increase from the current 40% to 50% by the end of the year.