{"slug": "openai-acquires-nextslide-to-bring-ai-generated-presentations-into-chatgpt", "title": "OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT", "summary": "OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that converts prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations, with founder Ahmed Beshry joining OpenAI's product team to work on ChatGPT. The deal closed earlier this year, though the purchase price was not disclosed, and NextSlide's website now displays only Beshry's farewell note. This marks Beshry's second exit, following his co-founding of Caper AI, which sold to Instacart for $350 million in 2021.", "body_md": "# OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT\n\n**OpenAI acquired NextSlide, the startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations.** Founder Ahmed Beshry now works on the product side at OpenAI, building ChatGPT. The [NextSlide](https://nextslide.ai/) website, which launched just over a year ago, now shows nothing but his farewell note.\n\nNeither side disclosed the purchase price. Beshry wrote on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ahmedbeshry_nextslide-is-joining-openai-share-7491547325379751936-3JOu/) that the announcement comes \"a few months late\" and that the deal closed earlier this year. This is Beshry's second exit. He previously co-founded Caper AI, which [sold to Instacart for $350 million in 2021](https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/instacart-acquires-caper-ai-a-smart-cart-and-instant-checkout-startup-for-350m-as-it-moves-deeper-into-physical-retail-tech/). [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide/) first reported the deal.\n\nIn March, the company released [a ChatGPT add-in for Microsoft Excel](https://the-decoder.com/openais-new-gpt-5-4-model-powers-chatgpt-for-excel-with-finance-optimized-reasoning/). In May, it shipped [a plugin that works directly inside PowerPoint](https://the-decoder.com/openai-launches-a-chatgpt-powerpoint-plugin-and-warns-it-might-accidentally-delete-your-content/). As early as summer 2025, OpenAI was already [testing agents that generate presentations and spreadsheets right in the chat](https://the-decoder.com/openai-is-testing-chatgpt-agents-that-create-and-edit-presentations-and-spreadsheets-in-chat/), compatible with Microsoft formats but independent of Microsoft's apps.\n\nNextSlide joins a string of small team acquisitions, including Sky, Roi, Context.ai, Crossing Minds, and the [analytics startup Statsig, which OpenAI bought for $1.1 billion](https://the-decoder.com/openai-buys-analytics-startup-statsig-and-makes-its-founder-the-cto-for-applications/). In June, OpenAI picked up [Ona, a German startup based in Kiel](https://the-decoder.com/openai-buys-ona-to-push-codex-toward-long-running-autonomous-coding-tasks/) formerly known as Gitpod, whose team has since been working on Codex.\n\n```\nAI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive \"AI Radar\" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\n```\n\n[NextSlide](https://nextslide.ai/)|\n\n[TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-acquires-nextslide-to-bring-ai-generated-presentations-into-chatgpt", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/openai-acquires-nextslide-to-bring-ai-generated-presentations-into-chatgpt/", "published_at": "2026-08-10 10:08:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 18:22:09.988588+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "NextSlide", "Ahmed Beshry", "Caper AI", "Instacart", "TechCrunch", "Microsoft Excel", "PowerPoint"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-acquires-nextslide-to-bring-ai-generated-presentations-into-chatgpt", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-acquires-nextslide-to-bring-ai-generated-presentations-into-chatgpt.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-acquires-nextslide-to-bring-ai-generated-presentations-into-chatgpt.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-acquires-nextslide-to-bring-ai-generated-presentations-into-chatgpt.jsonld"}}