OpenAI acquired a PPT start-up company that was established just over a year ago

Compiled by Zhidongzhi | Edited by Eggplant | Cheng Qian Zhidongzhi reported on August 10 that on August 8, NextSlide, an American AI PPT startup, officially announced that it was acquired by OpenAI. Its team has now joined OpenAI and participated in ChatGPT product development. The parties did not disclose the transaction amount and specific terms. ▲NextSlide announced that it was acquired by OpenAI (Source: NextSlide) According to the LinkedIn work experience of NextSlide founder Ahmed Beshry, he served as the founder and CEO of NextSlide from April 2025 to March 2026, and joined OpenAI in March 2026. It is speculated that the acquisition may be completed around March this year, but neither OpenAI nor NextSlide has announced a specific date. ▲Beshri’s work experience (Source: LinkedIn) NextSlide was established in April 2025 and mainly develops AI presentation generation tools. According to Beshri's introduction, after users enter prompt words, scattered notes, complete documents or research materials, the company's tool can automatically generate slides with complete logic, exquisite layout, and support for secondary editing, eliminating a lot of time-consuming manual layout and design. Founder Beshri said that traditional presentation production has a high threshold, which not only takes hours, but also requires users to have design capabilities. NextSlide hopes to lower the threshold for visual content creation so that ordinary people can convey ideas clearly and intuitively and output complete work results. Beshri revealed that after joining OpenAI, the NextSlide team will continue to develop AI products that help users create, communicate and transform ideas into practical results. However, Beshri did not specify which features of ChatGPT the team is currently responsible for. Beshri posted on LinkedIn on August 8 that OpenAI completed the acquisition in early 2026, but the relevant news was not officially announced until a few months later. He has currently joined the OpenAI product team to assist in the development of ChatGPT. Besh