OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s role in the workplace with ChatGPT Slides, a new presentation-building feature that lets users create, edit, and collaborate on slide decks directly within the platform. Announced in OpenAI’s October 16 release notes, the feature is designed to take users from an initial idea to a finished presentation without requiring them to manage every step manually.
Users can start with an existing ChatGPT conversation, uploaded files, an outline, or a sample presentation that guides the design. ChatGPT can then turn that material into an editable deck, generate custom images, and help refine text, visuals, and charts. Users can also edit individual elements themselves or ask ChatGPT to make specific changes.
The feature could appeal to professionals who regularly prepare business reviews, client proposals, product launches, and team updates. Instead of starting with a blank slide and manually arranging every element, users can focus on the message they want to communicate while ChatGPT helps organise the content and presentation.
Teams can edit presentations together in real time
One of ChatGPT Slides’ key features is collaborative editing. Users can invite teammates to work on the same presentation, make changes simultaneously and leave shared comments. ChatGPT can also help implement feedback, revise wording, update charts, and maintain consistency across slides.
This could make the feature particularly useful for teams that repeatedly revise presentations before meetings or client pitches. Rather than passing files back and forth and merging feedback manually, colleagues can work on a shared deck and ask ChatGPT to handle specific revisions.
Users can also provide an existing presentation as a reference, helping ChatGPT follow a preferred visual style and layout. This matters for businesses that need presentations to follow established branding rather than look like generic AI-generated slides.
PowerPoint and Google Slides exports are supported
Once a deck is ready, users can present it directly within ChatGPT or export it to PowerPoint, PDF, or Google Slides on the web. On supported desktop setups, presentations can also be opened in PowerPoint or Keynote. The exported content remains editable, allowing users to continue refining it in their preferred software.
There is, however, an important limitation: ChatGPT Slides is rolling out to eligible Pro, Business, and Enterprise users with Space access. It is not currently a feature available to every ChatGPT account, so access will depend on the user’s plan and workspace eligibility.
The launch also does not eliminate the need to review AI-generated work. Users should verify figures, sources, charts, and other factual claims before presenting or sharing a deck, particularly when it contains business or financial information.
For now, ChatGPT Slides represents a push towards making AI useful throughout the presentation workflow, from drafting and design to collaboration and delivery. Its value will depend on how well it handles complex layouts, preserves formatting, and translates rough source material into a coherent story. For professionals who spend hours building presentations, the promise is straightforward: less time wrestling with slides and more time improving the ideas behind them.
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