OpenAI acquires NextSlide presentation startup
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- OpenAI acquired presentation startup NextSlide, with the acquired team's members now working on ChatGPT.
- Ahmed Beshry, NextSlide's founder, announced the deal on LinkedIn, noting it's "a few months late" because the acquisition closed "earlier this year."
- Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- NextSlide's product could "turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable presentation," per the company's website.
- OpenAI's absorbed team will continue Beshry's stated mission of making "visual communication more accessible."
- Beshry previously co-founded Caper AI, a cashier-less checkout startup acquired by Instacart in 2021.
Why it matters: By absorbing NextSlide, OpenAI adds a prompt-to-presentation tool to ChatGPT, deepening its capabilities beyond text generation. The deal — closed earlier this year but only announced now with no disclosed terms — brings in founder Ahmed Beshry, whose previous startup Caper AI was acquired by Instacart in 2021.
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