Our application to ChatGPT for Academic Researchers was approved: a Pro-level research workspace, five seats, free for twelve months. It is access rather than a cash award, but it is access the whole group can use.

It pairs with the Claude credits from last week. The agent stack runs on Claude as its base model; this one mostly buys headroom for coding agents, deep literature work, and the day-to-day tooling around the research loop.

Thanks to OpenAI for supporting academic work. The autonomous discovery work now has support from both frontier labs, and the seats go to the people doing it.