--- title: OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide | daily.dev description: OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, an AI-powered tool that converts prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations. The acquisition closed a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide-datgxzgmk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, an AI-powered tool that converts prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations. The acquisition closed a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide-datgxzgmk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/daTgxZgmk.png og:image:alt: OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 3 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, an AI-powered tool that converts prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations. The acquisition closed a few months ago, with founder Ahmed Beshry announcing it publicly only recently. Financial terms were not disclosed. The NextSlide team is now contributing to ChatGPT. Beshry previously co-founded Caper AI, which Instacart acquired in 2021. ## Content OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a roughly year-old startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into polished, editable presentations. The entire team has moved to OpenAI and is now working on ChatGPT. Financial terms weren't disclosed, and founder Ahmed Beshry noted the announcement came several months after the deal actually closed. Beshry previously co-founded Caper AI, which Instacart acquired in 2021. ## Why this matters The acquisition fills a specific gap. ChatGPT could already generate .pptx files, but they came out as plain white slides with unformatted text boxes — technically a presentation, practically a rough draft. NextSlide's core product was exactly the editable, formatted output that ChatGPT handled least well. On May 21, 2026, OpenAI published a ChatGPT add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint that creates and edits slides inside PowerPoint and can pull content from Gmail, Outlook, and SharePoint. Whether NextSlide's code or people fed into that add-in, neither Beshry nor OpenAI has said. The competitive context is a bit awkward. Anthropic and Google already generate slides natively — Claude can produce decks, and Google Slides has AI built in. OpenAI gains ground here only if its output needs less fixing than what competitors produce. Meanwhile, the NextSlide deal puts OpenAI in the business of competing with PowerPoint, which is a Microsoft product — and Microsoft is OpenAI's largest backer. EU and UK regulators are already watching the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship closely. ## The bigger pattern NextSlide fits a broader acqui-hire strategy. OpenAI has been assembling office-suite capabilities piece by piece: io ($6.5B), Statsig ($1.1B), and personal finance apps Hiro and Roi have all come aboard recently. Google is doing the opposite — layering AI onto existing productivity tools rather than buying new ones. The open question is which approach users actually prefer: AI built into the tools they already use, or tools rebuilt from scratch around AI. ## Questions this post answers ### Why did OpenAI acquire the startup NextSlide? OpenAI acquired NextSlide, a roughly year-old startup, to fix ChatGPT's weak presentation output. ChatGPT could already generate .pptx files, but they came out as plain white slides with unformatted text boxes, while NextSlide specialized in turning prompts, notes, and documents into polished, editable, formatted presentations. The entire NextSlide team has moved to OpenAI to work on ChatGPT. _Anyone weighing AI presentation tools can follow acquisitions like this shaping ChatGPT's output on daily.dev._ ### Does ChatGPT have a PowerPoint add-in? Yes, OpenAI published a ChatGPT add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint on May 21, 2026, that creates and edits slides directly inside PowerPoint and can pull content from Gmail, Outlook, and SharePoint. It is unconfirmed whether the recently acquired NextSlide team's code or people contributed to this add-in, as neither OpenAI nor NextSlide's founder has said. _Teams deciding whether to adopt ChatGPT inside PowerPoint can track this rollout on daily.dev._ ### How do OpenAI's product acquisitions compare to Google's AI productivity strategy? OpenAI has been acquiring companies to assemble office-suite capabilities piece by piece, including io ($6.5B), Statsig ($1.1B), and personal finance apps Hiro and Roi, alongside NextSlide for presentations. Google instead layers AI onto existing productivity tools it already owns, such as adding AI to Google Slides, rather than buying new standalone products. _Developers picking sides in the AI productivity tooling debate can follow both strategies play out on daily.dev._ ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 0 discussions (as of 2026-09-13). **TL;DR:** No community discussion data is available for this acquisition, so no meaningful sentiment or commentary can be surfaced. **Sentiment:** 50% positive · 30% mixed · 20% skeptical ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@andrewma** · 3 upvotes > gotta try this out sometime!! **@harshitmanepally** · 0 upvotes > Need to have a look into it. --- Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide-datgxzgmk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide-datgxzgmk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide-datgxzgmk"},"datePublished":"2026-08-08T19:45:40.251Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T19:22:51.172Z","description":"OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, an AI-powered tool that converts prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations. 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