The maker of an AI tool that assembles slide decks from raw notes has joined OpenAI. Founder Ahmed Beshry said the NextSlide team will work on the product side of ChatGPT, and the companies did not disclose financial terms.
Beshry is a repeat founder. His earlier company, Caper AI, built smart shopping carts and sold to Instacart for $350M in 2021. NextSlide’s software turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations, and in May it shipped a plugin that runs inside PowerPoint.
OpenAI has been collecting small teams at a steady clip. Sky, Roi, Context.ai, Crossing Minds, and the analytics firm Statsig, which went for $1.1B, all joined in recent months, along with Ona, the startup formerly known as Gitpod, whose team now works on Codex. Beshry’s group lands squarely in ChatGPT’s visual and office-facing work.
The steady trickle of deals points to a strategy beyond chat. As Google and Microsoft bundle assistants into documents, spreadsheets, and slides, OpenAI is buying the pieces it needs to compete in everyday workplace tools rather than building them from scratch.
