OpenAI acquires NextSlide team to help build ChatGPT presentations
OpenAI bought NextSlide, whose tools turned prompts and documents into editable decks, and moved its team onto ChatGPT's presentation work.
OpenAI acquired NextSlide earlier this year, and the startup’s team is now at OpenAI helping build ChatGPT, founder Ahmed Beshry said in a LinkedIn post on Aug. 8. The presentation startup’s website now says it has been acquired by OpenAI, and the deal’s terms were not disclosed.
Beshry said he started NextSlide a little over a year before the acquisition. NextSlide had focused on AI tools that turned prompts, notes, documents and research into editable decks, a narrow but commercially useful corner of office software where speed and polish matter. In his post, Beshry wrote, “A few months late, but happy to finally share this: earlier this year, OpenAI acquired NextSlide!” and described the company’s mission as helping people turn ideas into presentations.
The purchase points to a product strategy that reaches beyond chat. OpenAI’s help center already describes a product called ChatGPT for PowerPoint that can create, edit, understand and polish presentations inside PowerPoint, suggesting the company is building ChatGPT into a broader work platform rather than a standalone chatbot. For OpenAI, presentation software sits in the same lane as document drafting, research synthesis and workplace communication, all of which are high-frequency tasks in offices that buy software by the seat and by the month.
The deal also fits a wider acquisition pattern. OpenAI paid $6.5 billion in 2025 for Jony Ive’s hardware startup io, and GeekWire reported that its acquisition of Seattle-area stats startup Statsig reflected both a deeper Seattle footprint and a broader buying spree. Smaller teams like NextSlide can bring product talent quickly into OpenAI’s internal roadmap without the delay of building every workflow from scratch.
Reaction on social media was upbeat. TestingCatalog posted that the NextSlide team was now at OpenAI helping build ChatGPT and echoed Beshry’s view that the company would continue building AI products that help people create, communicate and turn ideas into meaningful work. For OpenAI, the NextSlide acquisition reads less like a routine startup purchase than another step toward a full productivity suite built around ChatGPT.
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