OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a company specializing in creating presentations, which may lead to expanding capabilities of generating presentations through AI and business content creation.
Through the acquisition, OpenAI obtains access to the technology and expertise of NextSlide as the company continues to increase the range of uses for its AI models past chatbots and coding.
NextSlide specializes in building technology meant to make creating and working with presentations easier by using AI. The platform seeks to automate various stages of the presentation process, such as transforming data into slides and preparing a business-worthy presentation.
The acquisition is one of many cases when AI companies start moving into the space of workplace productivity as the natural progression in the development of AI technology. Presentations represent an area of interest for AI technologies due to the process of their creation being multi-faceted.
Creating a presentation involves researching, structuring information, writing, design, and other tasks.
Adding the ability to make presentations will improve the standing of OpenAI in the larger productivity software segment. The firm is increasingly diversifying the application of their AI models, with firms using them for writing, research, coding, and other work related to knowledge management.
This acquisition takes place against the backdrop of stiff competition in the AI productivity software segment. Various tech companies and startups are designing solutions through which users can develop documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and other business outputs with minimal manual effort.
The technology and people at NextSlide will thus fit into the strategy of OpenAI for building AI models to perform more complex workplace functions.
This reflects an overall trend in the AI industry, whereby companies are moving away from developing AI that simply answers questions and towards development of AI that delivers output.
In the case of OpenAI, development of presentations is yet another workflow where AI can perform more of the work from organization of information to development of a finished presentation.
