Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

We believe the benefits of frontier AI should not be concentrated in a few companies and well-resourced labs. Scientific progress depends on researchers asking the right questions, testing new ideas, and building on what others have discovered. Our role is to put powerful tools in their hands—and work alongside them to design models that accelerate their research while keeping them in control.

We’re introducing ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program that will give 100,000 researchers at selected academic institutions free access to our frontier models. The program will help researchers across the sciences, mathematics, and engineering take on advanced problems, accelerate discovery, and improve productivity, from preparing grant applications to testing hypotheses.

We’re starting with 10,000 researchers this summer, with access already available at institutions such as the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and École normale supérieure (ENS). We plan to expand to 100,000 researchers through 2027. Participants will have access to our frontier models, including GPT‑5.6⁠ Sol Pro at launch, and can invite up to four collaborators from their institution. Workspaces include business-grade privacy and security protections, and data is not used to train our models by default. Researchers can use tools and skills to support work ranging from genomic analysis and protein modeling to literature reviews, grant writing, and publishing.

The program also includes training, hands-on support, and opportunities to learn from other researchers and share feedback with us.

For institutions with ChatGPT Edu, free access granted through this program will be coordinated through the institution's workspace. Learn more about ChatGPT Edu and how OpenAI supports higher education.

ChatGPT for Academic Researchers is part of a commitment of more than $250 million through 2027 to support external scientific research and discovery. That includes NextGenAI, our $50 million initiative supporting research institutions, and our work with the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission⁠ to bring frontier AI to researchers at national laboratories and universities. Together, these efforts reflect our belief that scientific progress accelerates when more researchers have the tools to pursue their own ideas.

AI is becoming a more capable research tool faster than many expected. Each week, roughly 1.3 million people use ChatGPT for advanced science and mathematics, generating about 8.4 million messages.

The shift is especially visible in mathematics. In the past six months, AI has moved from occasional use on isolated problems to a more regular part of mathematical research. A growing number of papers now acknowledge ChatGPT’s contribution, reflecting how quickly researchers are adopting these tools in their work.

Researchers use ChatGPT and Codex across nearly every stage of scientific work. ChatGPT helps researchers interrogate ideas, acquire knowledge, generate hypotheses, and communicate their findings. Codex supports research execution and formal analysis, including writing code and analyzing results.

These patterns are showing up in research. Physicist Rogerio Jorge and his team are using AI to develop open-source fusion research software used by industry and national laboratories to design fusion energy devices. In theoretical computer science, researchers Barna Saha, Yinzhan Xu, and Christopher Ye used GPT‑5.5 Pro to develop a proof establishing new limits on how efficiently computers can solve high-dimensional geometry problems, then validated and refined the results themselves.

Researchers using these tools most intensively are also taking on more ambitious work. Those in the top 20% of AI usage within their field are almost twice as likely as their peers to ask AI to take on tasks estimated to require four hours or more: nearly 7% of their requests, compared with 3.5% among other researchers in the same field.

Our strategy is not to decide which scientific problems deserve attention or try to solve them all ourselves. It is to put capable tools in the hands of the research community and let researchers pursue the questions they know best.

Gheobhaidh rannpháirtithe rochtain saor in aisce ar ár samhlacha ceannródaíocha ar fud ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work agus Codex, lena n-áirítear teaghlach samhlacha GPT‑5.6⁠ tráth an tseolta. Beidh teacht acu freisin ar dhiantaighde breisithe, teorainneacha úsáide níos airde agus fuinneoga comhthéacs níos mó. Le chéile, tacaíonn na cumais seo le réasúnaíocht eolaíoch, cur i gcrích gníomhaíoch agus sreafaí oibre taighde thar dhisciplíní éagsúla.

Cothromaíonn GPT‑5.6 Terra cumas agus éifeachtúlacht don ghnáth-thaighde laethúil, tugann GPT‑5.6 Luna freagraí níos tapúla ar thascanna níos éadroime, agus téann GPT‑5.6 Sol i ngleic leis na fadhbanna eolaíocha agus matamaiticiúla is deacra. Ar FrontierMath Tier 4, a thomhaiseann réasúnaíocht mhatamaiticiúil ar leibhéal taighde, gnóthaíonn GPT‑5.6 Sol 83%, i gcomparáid le 72.5% ag GPT‑5.5. Ar GeneBench Pro, a dhéanann measúnú ar anailís chasta ar shonraí bitheolaíocha agus ar réasúnaíocht eolaíoch, réitíonn GPT‑5.6 Sol Pro 31.5% de na tascanna.

Is féidir le taighdeoirí breis agus 75 scil eolaíochta beatha⁠(osclaíonn i bhfuinneog nua) a úsáid i réimsí na géineolaíochta, na géanómaíochta, an tseicheamhaithe, na hanailíse aoncheallaí, shamhaltú próitéiní agus fionnachtain drugaí. Tacaíonn nascóirí le taighde thar dhisciplíní éagsúla trí rochtain a thabhairt ar litríocht eolaíoch, bunachair sonraí phoiblí ghéanómaíocha agus chliniciúla, íomhánna satailíte, leabhair nótaí ríomhaireachtúla, ardáin sonraí agus bainisteoirí tagairtí.

Is féidir le Codex cabhrú le cód a scríobh agus a dhífhabhtú, tacair sonraí a anailísiú agus sreafaí oibre in-athdhéanta a chruthú. Is féidir le ChatGPT Work tacú le tionscadail níos fadtéarmaí, amhail deiseanna maoinithe a aimsiú, iarratais ar dheontais a ullmhú, litríocht a athbhreithniú, lámhscríbhinní a dhréachtú agus ábhair a chruthú chun torthaí a chur in iúl.

Beidh leibhéil éagsúla taithí ar AI ag taighdeoirí i dtosach. D’fhéadfadh cuid acu a bheith ag úsáid na n-uirlisí seo den chéad uair; d’fhéadfadh cuid eile a bheith ag forbairt feidhmchláir ardleibhéil ina réimsí.

Cuirfidh an clár oiliúint ar fáil a bheidh curtha in oiriúint do leibhéil éagsúla taithí, ó thús a chur leis agus sreafaí oibre a fheabhsú go feidhmchláir ardleibhéil taighde. Beidh rochtain ag rannpháirtithe ar speisialtóirí a bhfuil cur amach acu ar shreafaí oibre taighde, lena n-áirítear cabhair chun na huirlisí seo a chomhtháthú ina gcuid oibre.

De réir mar a fheicimid fionnachtana na dtaighdeoirí, tá sé beartaithe againn tuilleadh deiseanna a chruthú dóibh cur chuige praiticiúil a roinnt, foghlaim óna chéile agus aird a tharraingt ar úsáidí thar dhisciplíní éagsúla. Cuideoidh a n-aiseolas linn a thuiscint cá bhfuil ár samhlacha úsáideach, cá bhfuil siad easnamhach agus conas is féidir linn iad a dhéanamh níos luachmhaire don phobal taighde.

Tá an clár tosaigh oscailte do thaighdeoirí incháilithe in institiúidí acadúla roghnaithe. Ní mór do na hinstitiúidí incháilithe⁠(osclaíonn i bhfuinneog nua) a bheith ina gcoláistí nó ina n-ollscoileanna aitheanta a bhronnann céimeanna agus a dhéanann ardleibhéal gníomhaíochta taighde.

Beidh ar iarratasóirí a gceangal institiúideach a fhíorú agus eolas a sholáthar faoina dtaighde gníomhach agus faoin úsáid eolaíoch atá beartaithe acu. Féadfaidh taighdeoirí ceadaithe cuireadh a thabhairt do suas le ceathrar comhoibritheoirí óna n-institiúid. Ní mór do gach comhoibrí a gceangal leis an institiúid a fhíorú freisin, agus áirítear gach comhoibrí i líon iomlán chuntais an chláir.

Táthar ag glacadh le hiarratais ón lá inniu. Is féidir leat na critéir incháilitheachta a athbhreithniú agus iarratas a dhéanamh anseo⁠(osclaíonn i bhfuinneog nua).