NextSlide

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Acquisition

OpenAI quietly acquired presentation startup NextSlide for ChatGPT

The deal closed months ago, and the product is already gone, folded straight into ChatGPT's roadmap.

• OpenAI acquired presentation startup NextSlide, with the entire team moving over to work on ChatGPT; financial terms were not disclosed.
• NextSlide's product turned prompts, notes, documents, or research into polished, editable slide decks, aiming to make visual communication accessible to non-designers.
• Founder Ahmed Beshry disclosed the deal via a LinkedIn post and a note on the NextSlide site, saying the announcement came 'a few months late' since the acquisition actually closed earlier in 2026; the NextSlide product no longer exists standalone.
• It's Beshry's second exit: he previously co-founded cashier-less checkout startup Caper AI, which Instacart acquired for a reported $350 million in 2021.
• NextSlide was founded in mid-2025, meaning OpenAI absorbed the team roughly a year into its existence rather than after a long independent run.
• The deal follows OpenAI's typical acqui-hire pattern: a small team and working product folded into an existing product line, with the standalone brand discontinued.
• Presentation creation is a productivity surface ChatGPT hasn't natively owned, and folding in a prompt-to-deck team gives OpenAI a head start as it pushes ChatGPT toward enterprise office work against rivals like Microsoft and Anthropic.