Kevin Weil and Victor Powell unveil Prism, OpenAI’s free AI-native LaTeX editor powered by GPT-5.2, designed to eliminate tedious typesetting so scientists can focus on ideas—not formatting. The conversation traces Prism’s origin: Kevin discovered Victor’s stealth startup Cricket on Reddit, leading to its acquisition and integration into OpenAI for Science. Live demos showcase AI proofreading full papers, converting hand-drawn diagrams into TikZ code, generating lecture notes in seconds, and verifying complex equations—all with full project context. Prism’s Monaco-based editor, backend PDF rendering, and unlimited free collaboration reflect a deep commitment to usability and scalability. Looking ahead, the team argues that AI’s role in science is shifting from assistant to co-researcher—already tackling open problems in physics and math, soon accelerating experimental design via robotic labs and in silico simulation. Their vision isn’t to win Nobel Prizes themselves, but to empower hundreds of scientists to do so faster, compressing decades of progress into years.