ChatGPT can now make presentations: Slides in Space with shared editing and PowerPoint export

What happened: According to its release notes, OpenAI on October 16, 2026 began gradually rolling out Slides — building presentations directly in ChatGPT. It follows Space, the shared workspace announced at DevDay on September 29 (see our earlier piece on Space and Pages). Slides is appearing for eligible users on Pro, Business and Enterprise plans who have Space, on the web and in the desktop app. You can edit a deck (text, images, shapes, charts), colleagues can work on it at the same time and comment, and you can present the result straight from ChatGPT. On the web it exports to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides; in the desktop app a deck opens in PowerPoint or Keynote if you have them installed. The rollout is gradual, so the feature may not show up for you right away.

What it means for you: Until now, ChatGPT mostly produced an outline that you laboriously moved into slides. Now the whole chain — source material, outline, slides, colleagues' comments — happens in one place. In practice:

• From notes to slides — you upload project material to Space and write "prepare an eight-slide deck for Thursday's leadership meeting, focused on the decisions we need".
• Shared polishing — a colleague comments on a specific slide, so you don't mail files back and forth.
• Delivery in your format — exporting to PowerPoint or Google Slides lets you finish in the company template.

How to start:

1. Check that your plan includes Space and that Slides already shows up (the rollout is gradual).
2. Add source material to Space — meeting notes, a spreadsheet with figures, a previous deck.
3. Describe the goal, audience and length, and let ChatGPT draft a first version.
4. Go through every slide, verify the numbers against their sources and invite colleagues to comment.
5. Export to the format your team uses.

What to watch out for: The feature isn't available on every plan yet — see the current plan overview on OpenAI's site. Always check numbers, charts and quotations by hand: AI proposes, a human approves. Don't put personal data or confidential internal material into decks unless your company has approved ChatGPT for it.

When it pays off and when it doesn't: Slides makes sense when you build a deck from material already in Space and several people work on it. If you have a strict company template with an exact layout, expect to polish the final look after exporting to PowerPoint or Google Slides anyway. A two-round approach works best: approve the outline first, and only then generate the slides — it saves rewriting the whole deck.