You can now add ChatGPT to PowerPoint

Source: Engadget

Most users can start generating slides with AI today.

ChatGPT in PowerPoint

OpenAI is now letting you give your presentations the AI treatment. The company announced that ChatGPT is available in Microsoft PowerPoint. The chatbot can create new presentation slides, as well as edit and update existing ones. As with many of ChatGPT’s capabilities, it takes action based on natural‑language prompts or by pulling material from connected services like Gmail, Outlook, or SharePoint. The PowerPoint feature is in beta, but most OpenAI users can get to work with it now, including those on the free access tier and subscribers through the corporate‑focused ChatGPT Business.

How It Works

• Natural‑language prompts: Tell ChatGPT what you need—e.g., “Create a slide about quarterly sales growth”—and it will generate the content and design.
• Integration with Microsoft 365: The assistant can pull data from Gmail, Outlook, SharePoint, and other connected services to populate slides automatically.
• Editing existing slides: Ask the bot to revise text, update charts, or re‑format a slide, and it will apply the changes directly in PowerPoint.

Competitors

• Anthropic has offered a similar capability with its Claude chatbot since September. Read more
• Google’s Gemini integrates with Google Slides to generate presentations. Read more

With OpenAI potentially gearing up for an IPO, it makes sense that the company is mirroring as many of its competitors’ capabilities as possible. PowerPoint was a bit of an outlier, since ChatGPT is already up and rolling in several other enterprise tools such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.