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OpenAI has made ChatGPT available inside Microsoft $MSFT -0.25% PowerPoint, allowing users to build and edit presentations using the AI chatbot.
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.
