⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for Science
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
- Published
- January 27, 2026
- Duration
- 35:59
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Apr 21, 2026
Discusses openai, embeddings.
Summary
From building Crixet in stealth (so stealthy Kevin had to hunt down Victor on Reddit to explore an acquisition) to launching Prism (https://openai.com/prism/) as OpenAI's free AI-native LaTeX editor, Kevin Weil (VP of OpenAI for Science) and Victor Powell (Product Lead on Prism) are embedding frontier reasoning models like GPT 5.2 directly into the scient…
Show notes
From building Crixet in stealth (so stealthy Kevin had to hunt down Victor on Reddit to explore an acquisition) to launching Prism (https://openai.com/prism/) as OpenAI's free AI-native LaTeX editor, Kevin Weil (VP of OpenAI for Science) and Victor Powell (Product Lead on Prism) are embedding frontier reasoning models like GPT 5.2 directly into the scientific publishing workflow—turning weeks of LaTeX wrestling into minutes of natural language instruction, and accelerating the path from research
Themes
- openai
- embeddings