Victor Powell

Product Lead on Prism, OpenAI · 1 appearance on the record.

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Victor Powell is the founder of Crixet, a collaborative LaTeX platform that was acquired by OpenAI to become Prism. Prior to developing Prism, he created the interactive data visualization project Explained Visually and worked on mapping at Uber.

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Powell: LaTeX code will recede as researchers interact directly with papers

“To your point about voice though, I do think maybe over time the code kind of might recede into the background more as you're just really interact, you're interacting with the paper.”

Victor Powell Jan 27, 2026 ▶ 12:43 ⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for Science

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Powell: AI tools will progress to running multi-day autonomous scientific analyses

“I do think that's sort of the progression where it's like, Doing, doing maybe work for a few seconds versus maybe we're already at a point where it's doing work for a few minutes, eventually doing work for hours, days, coming back with very complicated analysi…”

Victor Powell Jan 27, 2026 ▶ 19:56 ⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for Science

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for	Jan 27, 2026	2m

Victor Powell

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