OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT

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.

OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT 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. Neither 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. In 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. NextSlide 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. AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe 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. Subscribe now NextSlide https://nextslide.ai/ | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide/