OpenAI buys presentation startup NextSlide, terms undisclosed
OpenAI acquired NextSlide, a startup turning prompts, notes, and documents into editable presentations, in a deal closed earlier this year and disclosed on August 8 with no financial terms; the team now works on ChatGPT. It is a small talent-and-product tuck-in — founder Ahmed Beshry previously co-founded Caper AI, sold to Instacart in 2021 for $350 million — that puts slide generation inside ChatGPT rather than a separate tool, pressing directly on the presentation software market.
Source: techcrunch.com ↗
to make visual communication more accessible and help more people express their ideas clearly
Ahmed Beshry, NextSlide founder
Why this matters
- → OpenAI embeds slide generation directly into ChatGPT, not a separate app
- → Moves OpenAI into presentation software—a category it has not dominated
- → Founder's track record: Caper AI sold to Instacart for $350M in 2021
OpenAI's slide ambitions