OpenAI has reportedly integrated its ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) assistant directly into Microsoft PowerPoint.
This new feature, currently in beta, allows users to generate full presentations from scratch by providing simple conversational prompts or raw materials such as notes, spreadsheets and images, according to a Friday (May 22) report in Quartz.
Beyond initial creation, the tool functions as an advanced editor capable of modifying or inserting slides without requiring a total restart, the report says. Its capabilities extend to advanced reasoning, where the assistant can analyze a finished deck to identify narrative weak points and predict objections that clients or audience members might raise.
To streamline workflows, ChatGPT integrates with services like Gmail, Outlook, and SharePoint, per the report, allowing it to pull information directly from a user’s connected accounts rather than requiring manual data transfers.
The rollout is notably inclusive, reaching the broad majority of OpenAI’s user base, from those on free accounts to organizations on the corporate ChatGPT Business plan. This move allows OpenAI to close a competitive gap with Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini, both of which already offer comparable slide-building functionality.
This integration arrives amid a shifting relationship between the tech giants. A restructured partnership means Microsoft no longer holds exclusive rights to OpenAI’s models, though it retains a non-exclusive license through 2032. While ChatGPT was already present in Excel and Sheets, the report notes that PowerPoint had been a holdout until now.
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The push into PowerPoint comes as OpenAI prepares for a potential initial public offering (IPO), aiming for a public debut this September. While the company generated nearly $6 billion in revenue during the first quarter — driven largely by its Codex coding agent and business sales — it continues to operate “deeply in the red” with a projected $14 billion annual loss.
Financial disclosures reveal that OpenAI lost $1.22 for every dollar of revenue in the first quarter, resulting in an adjusted operating income margin of negative 122%. Consequently, the company is pivoting away from side projects to focus more heavily on coding and business users to maintain its lead over rivals like Anthropic and Google as the market moves toward intense scrutiny of AI business models.