OpenAI Bought a Presentation Startup, and ChatGPT Slide Decks May Be Coming

Summary

OpenAI acquired NextSlide, an AI startup that turns prompts, documents, and research notes into finished, editable slide presentations. The deal was confirmed by NextSlide founder Ahmed Beshry, who said the team has been working inside OpenAI on ChatGPT since the acquisition closed earlier this year. Financial terms were not disclosed. Beshry previously co-founded Caper AI, a smart checkout startup that Instacart acquired in 2021.

Why it matters

OpenAI is picking up productivity capabilities one acquisition at a time, and slides are a gap that millions of people hit every week. If ChatGPT can reliably take a document or a prompt and output a presentation worth handing to someone, that is a meaningful shift for anyone who builds decks for work, school, or side projects.

HTD Says

OpenAI buying a slide deck startup is another piece of what is starting to look like a full productivity suite built around ChatGPT, and the question is how long before this shows up in the product for everyone. Claude has been pretty good at creating presentations. And Google’s Notebook LM did a fine job at crafting new presentations around a theme.

This is another example of innovation through acquisition. It’s understandable, especially as this is a race for all AI companies to leapfrog the competition. However, acquiring is one thing. Integrating technology, code, and people into an organization is both costly and time-consuming.

Since this particular acquisition happened a few months ago but only just announced recently, OpenAI is probably well down the road to getting something “integrated” out to market.

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