OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide
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- NextSlide announced it's joining OpenAI, with the startup's team now working on ChatGPT.
- Founder Ahmed Beshry described NextSlide as a tool that turns prompts, notes, documents, or research into polished, editable presentations, with a mission to make visual communication more accessible.
- Beshry said the announcement is "a few months late" because the acquisition actually took place "earlier this year."
- Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- Beshry was previously a co-founder at Caper AI, a smart cart and cashier-less checkout startup acquired by Instacart in 2021.
Why it matters: OpenAI is folding presentation-generation capabilities into ChatGPT, extending its scope from text chat into visual content creation. The undisclosed deal terms and founder Ahmed Beshry's prior successful exit — co-founding Caper AI before its 2021 Instacart acquisition — point to OpenAI's continued acqui-hire strategy targeting proven product builders.
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