Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
We’re putting our frontier models and tools in the hands of 100,000 scientists, mathematicians, and engineers—at no cost.
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.
* Nepotpun mjesec; indeks cjelovitih tekstova trenutačno obuhvaća razdoblje do 21. srpnja.
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.
Udio zahtjeva za znanstvena istraživanja prema kategoriji znanstvenog tijeka rada i proizvodu, 21. lipnja – 20. srpnja 2026.
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.
Udio znanstvenih zahtjeva prema procijenjenom vremenu aktivnog ljudskog rada i intenzitetu uporabe AI-ja među znanstvenicima, 21. lipnja – 20. srpnja 2026.
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.
Sudionici će dobiti besplatan pristup našim najnaprednijim modelima u proizvodima ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work i Codex, uključujući obitelj modela GPT‑5.6 pri pokretanju programa. Dobit će i proširene mogućnosti dubinskog istraživanja, veće kvote uporabe i veće kontekstne prozore. Te mogućnosti zajedno podržavaju znanstveno rasuđivanje, izvršavanje zadataka s pomoću agenata i istraživačke tijekove rada u različitim disciplinama.
GPT‑5.6 Terra uravnotežuje sposobnost i učinkovitost za svakodnevna istraživanja, GPT‑5.6 Luna pruža brže odgovore za jednostavnije zadatke, a GPT‑5.6 Sol rješava najteže znanstvene i matematičke probleme. Na testu FrontierMath Tier 4, kojim se mjeri matematičko rasuđivanje na istraživačkoj razini, GPT‑5.6 Sol postiže 83 %, u usporedbi sa 72,5 % modela GPT‑5.5. Na testu GeneBench Pro, kojim se procjenjuju složena analiza bioloških podataka i znanstveno rasuđivanje, GPT‑5.6 Sol Pro rješava 31,5 % zadataka.
Istraživači mogu upotrebljavati više od 75 vještina iz bioznanosti(otvara se u novom prozoru) koje obuhvaćaju genetiku, genomiku, sekvenciranje, analizu pojedinačnih stanica, modeliranje proteina i otkrivanje lijekova. Poveznici podržavaju istraživanja u različitim disciplinama pružajući pristup znanstvenoj literaturi, javnim genomskim i kliničkim bazama podataka, satelitskim snimkama, računalnim bilježnicama, podatkovnim platformama i alatima za upravljanje referencama.
Reprezentativni primjeri vještina, poveznika i alata dostupnih u proizvodima ChatGPT i Codex.
Codex može pomoći pri pisanju i otklanjanju pogrešaka u kodu, analizi skupova podataka i izradi ponovljivih tijekova rada. ChatGPT Work može podržati dulje projekte, poput pronalaženja prilika za financiranje, pripreme prijava za financiranje, pregleda literature, izrade nacrta rukopisa i materijala za predstavljanje rezultata.
Istraživači će imati različite razine početnog iskustva s umjetnom inteligencijom. Neki će se tim alatima možda služiti prvi put, dok drugi možda razvijaju napredne primjene u svojim područjima.
Program će nuditi obuku prilagođenu različitim razinama iskustva, od prvih koraka i poboljšanja tijekova rada do naprednih istraživačkih primjena. Sudionicima će biti dostupni stručnjaci upoznati s istraživačkim tijekovima rada, uključujući pomoć pri uvođenju tih alata u njihov rad.
Kako budemo pratili otkrića istraživača, planiramo stvarati više prilika da razmjenjuju praktične pristupe, uče jedni od drugih i ističu primjene u različitim disciplinama. Njihove povratne informacije pomoći će nam razumjeti gdje su naši modeli korisni, gdje imaju nedostatke i kako ih učiniti korisnijima istraživačkoj zajednici.
Početni program otvoren je kvalificiranim istraživačima na odabranim akademskim ustanovama. Prihvatljive ustanove(otvara se u novom prozoru) moraju biti priznata visoka učilišta ili sveučilišta koja dodjeljuju akademske stupnjeve i imaju visoku razinu istraživačke aktivnosti.
Podnositelji prijave morat će potvrditi pripadnost ustanovi te navesti podatke o svojem aktivnom istraživanju i planiranoj znanstvenoj uporabi. Odobreni istraživači mogu pozvati do četiri suradnika iz svoje ustanove. Svaki suradnik također mora potvrditi pripadnost ustanovi i ubraja se u ukupan broj računa u programu.
Prijave su otvorene od danas. Kriterije prihvatljivosti možete pregledati i prijaviti se ovdje(otvara se u novom prozoru).
