OpenAI has officially announced the launch of Prism — a free workspace designed specifically for the needs of the academic community, researchers, and students. If 2025 marked a breakthrough year for AI in programming, then the current year, according to the developers’ vision, is expected to become a turning point for both fundamental and applied research.

A response to the intellectual majority OpenAI statistics show a dramatic increase in interest in complex disciplines: each week ChatGPT processes more than 8.4 million advanced queries in mathematics and the exact sciences. Over the past year, the volume of such requests has grown by 50%, forming a core group of 1.3 million active research users who required a more refined tool than a standard chatbot.

What does Prism change in scientific routine? The platform takes on the most labor-intensive technical aspects of preparing scientific work:

• Intelligent formatting: automatic text formatting and creation of complex diagrams without the need to learn specialized markup languages (such as TikZ).

• Source management: instant search for relevant publications and automatic generation of bibliographies with direct links to primary sources.

• Academic assistant: generation of structured lecture plans and assessment tasks for educators.

Prism’s main goal is to free researchers from “technical noise,” allowing them to focus on hypothesis testing and data analysis. OpenAI expects that accelerating routine processes will directly translate into faster global scientific discoveries.

The launch of Prism confirms a paradigm shift: artificial intelligence is moving beyond being merely a “smart conversational partner” and becoming a specialized engineering environment. For the scientific community, this represents a transition from information search to automated knowledge synthesis.

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