OpenAI Acquires NextSlide, a Startup That Builds Presentations from Prompts

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that developed a tool for automatically creating presentations. The startup announced the news itself: its employees are now working on ChatGPT.

The NextSlide website features a note from founder Ahmed Beshry. As he describes it, the company's product could turn prompts, notes, documents or research findings into a polished, editable presentation. Beshry named making visual communication more accessible and helping more people express their ideas clearly as the ultimate goal.

According to the founder, having joined OpenAI, the team will continue to pursue the same mission — building AI products that help people create, communicate and turn ideas into meaningful work.

The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. In a LinkedIn post, Beshry noted that the announcement was coming somewhat late — “a few months late” — since the deal itself had actually closed earlier this year.

For Beshry, this is not the first exit. He was previously a co-founder of Caper AI, a startup working on “smart” carts and cashierless checkout, which Instacart acquired in 2021.

The acquisition fits the logic of expanding ChatGPT's capabilities: a tool for generating presentations from text materials is an obvious addition to OpenAI's product lineup, though the company did not say in what form NextSlide's work would be integrated.

Source: TechCrunch