{"id":25179,"date":"2026-08-09T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=25179"},"modified":"2026-08-09T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:34:50","slug":"openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=25179","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NextSlide recently announced that it\u2019s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup\u2019s team members now working on ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NextSlide website currently displays a note from founder Ahmed Beshry describing the startup\u2019s product as one \u201cthat could turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable presentation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ultimate goal, Beshry said, was \u201cto make visual communication more accessible and help more people express their ideas clearly.\u201d So by joining OpenAI, the team will \u201ccontinue pursuing that same mission: building AI products that help people create, communicate, and turn their ideas into meaningful work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a note on LinkedIn, Beshry said the announcement is coming \u201ca few months late,\u201d as the acquisition took place \u201cearlier this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beshry was previously a co-founder at Caper AI, a smart cart\/cashier-less checkout startup acquired by Instacart in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/08\/08\/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NextSlide recently announced that it\u2019s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup\u2019s team members now working on ChatGPT. The NextSlide website currently displays a note from founder Ahmed Beshry describing the startup\u2019s product as one \u201cthat could turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable presentation.\u201d The ultimate goal, Beshry said, was \u201cto make<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11649,11652,11028,11650,11651],"class_list":["post-25179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-results","tag-acquires","tag-nextslide","tag-openai","tag-presentation","tag-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}