OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into finished editable presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the team has moved onto ChatGPT.
Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the deal in a note on the company’s website, which now carries nothing else. “The NextSlide team is now at OpenAI, helping build ChatGPT,” he wrote.
A very short round trip
NextSlide was founded in mid-2025, making it roughly a year old at exit. That is a compressed path even by current standards, and it says more about OpenAI’s appetite than about the product.
It is Beshry’s second exit. He co-founded Caper AI, the smart-cart and cashierless checkout company, which Instacart acquired in October 2021 with carts already running in Kroger, Wakefern, and Sobeys stores.
The shopping list
This is not an isolated purchase. OpenAI paid $6.5 billion for io, Jony Ive’s hardware...
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