OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT directly into Microsoft PowerPoint

The feature, currently in beta, To start a new presentation, users can describe what they want or supply raw materials such as notes, documents, spreadsheets, or images, and the assistant generates an initial structure from that input. For presentations already underway, the tool can modify or insert slides without requiring users to start over. The assistant can also apply reasoning to a finished deck, surfacing weak points in the narrative and predicting objections that audience members or clients may bring up, according to Digital Trends.

Integration with services such as Gmail, Outlook, and SharePoint means presentations can draw on information that already exists across a user's connected accounts, bypassing the need to transfer content by hand, according to Digital Trends. Access spans every major subscription level, and users can get the add-in either through the Microsoft marketplace or directly through PowerPoint's own interface.

As Engadget notes, the rollout reaches the broad majority of OpenAI's user base, from people on free accounts to organizations on the corporate ChatGPT Business plan. The assistant acts on conversational instructions and can also draw on data housed in third-party platforms the user has linked to their account.

OpenAI's entry into PowerPoint closes a gap with Anthropic, which has provided comparable slide-building functionality through Claude since last September, according to Engadget. Google $GOOGL has addressed the same space through Gemini's built-in ties to Slides. Before this release, Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets were among the productivity platforms where ChatGPT had already established a presence, making PowerPoint a notable holdout until now.

The announcement comes as OpenAI and Microsoft restructured their longstanding partnership, with Microsoft no longer holding exclusive rights to sell OpenAI's AI models. Under the revised agreement, OpenAI's intellectual property is available to Microsoft under a non-exclusive license running through 2032, and OpenAI is now free to distribute its products through other cloud providers.