OpenAI buys a slides startup for ChatGPT work

August 9, 2026

OpenAI acquired presentation startup NextSlide and said the team will work on ChatGPT-related products for creating visual slide decks from user inputs.

This is likely to matter less as a mergers story than as another step in turning ChatGPT into a work surface for finished business documents, not only a text assistant. It also suggests that the pressure on Microsoft sits at the product layer as much as in models or cloud, because a tool that starts to produce slide decks from prompts moves closer to Office work that people already do.