ChatGPT Now Available in Microsoft PowerPoint
Quick Look
- OpenAI's ChatGPT is now integrated into Microsoft PowerPoint, allowing users to create, edit, and update presentations using natural language prompts or connected services.
- The feature is in beta and available to most users, including free tier and ChatGPT Business subscribers.
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Why It Matters
OpenAI has announced that its ChatGPT chatbot is now available within Microsoft PowerPoint. This integration allows users to generate new slides, as well as edit and update existing ones, using natural language prompts or by connecting to services like Gmail, Outlook, and Sharepoint.
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 editing and updating 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.
This is a feature rival Anthropic has offered with its Claude chatbot since September. (Google's Gemini, of course, integrates nicely with the company's Slides platform.) With OpenAI potentially gearing up for what's sure to be an obscenely valued 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.
Open Questions
- What are the specific limitations of the beta feature?
- What is the pricing structure for ChatGPT Business users accessing this feature?
- How does the performance of ChatGPT in PowerPoint compare to Anthropic's Claude or Google's Gemini in their respective platforms?
- What is the timeline for the full release of this feature beyond the beta phase?
