Powell: AI tools will progress to running multi-day autonomous scientific analyses
Victor Powell · ⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for Science · Jan 27, 2026 · at 19:56
Victor Powell, product lead on Prism at OpenAI, discusses the future progression of AI reasoning time in scientific research workflows.
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“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 analysis.”
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