OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a presentation startup. Team members from the company are now working on ChatGPT. The acquisition took place "earlier this year," with the announcement coming "a few months late" according to founder Ahmed Beshry on LinkedIn.
The NextSlide website displays a note from Beshry describing the product as one "that could turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable presentation." The stated goal was "to make visual communication more accessible and help more people express their ideas clearly."
By joining OpenAI, the team will "continue pursuing that same mission: building AI products that help people create, communicate, and turn their ideas into meaningful work." Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Beshry was previously a co-founder at Caper AI, a smart cart/cashier-less checkout startup acquired by Instacart in 2021.