OpenAI is bringing the team behind AI presentation startup NextSlide into the company, in a move that could expand ChatGPT’s capabilities beyond text and into visual communication.
NextSlide founder Ahmed Beshry announced that the startup’s team is joining OpenAI, where they will work on building ChatGPT.
Founded a little over a year ago, NextSlide developed a presentation-generation platform designed to turn prompts, notes, documents and research into polished, editable presentations.
The company positioned its technology around a broader problem than simply saving users time when creating slides: making visual communication accessible to people without professional design skills.
“Presentations help ideas move through the world,” Beshry said in announcing the move, noting that they are used to teach, persuade, share research and advance important work.
NextSlide’s approach allowed users to start with existing information rather than build presentations from scratch, potentially reducing the time and expertise required to turn research or ideas into presentation-ready material.
The team will now bring that experience to OpenAI as the company continues expanding ChatGPT into a broader productivity platform.
The move could be particularly significant for professionals, businesses, educators and researchers who increasingly use ChatGPT to transform information into usable work products.
Rather than stopping at generating written content, AI assistants are increasingly being used to create documents, analyze information, develop visual assets and support presentations.
For OpenAI, adding the NextSlide team could strengthen this broader vision for ChatGPT as a tool that helps users move from an idea to a finished piece of work.
Beshry said the NextSlide team was attracted to the opportunity to continue pursuing its original mission at a much larger scale.
“We’re excited to continue pursuing that same mission: building AI products that help people create, communicate, and turn their ideas into meaningful work,” he said.
NextSlide’s standalone journey was relatively short, having launched just over a year ago. Its integration into OpenAI demonstrates how quickly the AI industry is consolidating around products that can automate traditionally specialized creative and knowledge-work tasks.
The move also highlights the growing competition among AI companies to make their assistants useful across entire workflows rather than for isolated tasks.
For ChatGPT users, the longer-term implication could be a more seamless path from research and instructions to presentation-ready output—without having to move between multiple applications.
OpenAI has not disclosed financial terms for the deal or provided details on when NextSlide’s presentation capabilities will become available inside ChatGPT.
For NextSlide, however, the transition marks the end of its independent chapter and the beginning of a new one inside one of the world’s leading AI companies.
Beshry thanked users and supporters who helped shape the product, saying the team was “excited for what comes next.”