Announced 16 Oct 2026 · Sources checked
What OpenAI released
OpenAI has started rolling out ChatGPT Slides, a way to build presentations inside ChatGPT and keep editing them with colleagues. The newest entry in the ChatGPT release notes, posted above the 9 October entries and updated on 16 October, says Slides "lets you create presentations and keep working on them with your team in Space," starting from a conversation, files or an outline, or from an example deck that guides the style and layout.
A dedicated help article, updated the same day, adds the details: decks can be edited directly or by asking ChatGPT, several people can edit at once, and finished decks can be presented from ChatGPT or exported. OpenAI's product page sums it up as turning "a conversation or template into interactive slides."
Who can use it, and the Windows catch
Slides is "rolling out to eligible Pro, Business, and Enterprise users with Space access on the web and in the desktop app." Space is the shared project area OpenAI introduced at DevDay on 29 September, which brings Pages, files and related work together and replaces Library for accounts that have it. Free, Go and Plus users are not on the list. The help article warns that if Slides does not appear, it "may not be available for your account" yet.
There is also a Windows limitation. Collaborative Slides in the desktop app need a system component OpenAI calls MXC. Windows 10 does not support it, and Windows 11 users may need an update or their organisation to enable it. Without it, local slide creation in the desktop app falls back to ordinary PowerPoint .pptx files rather than shared decks; OpenAI's workaround is to use cloud mode or the web version.
How a deck gets made
There are two ways in. The first is to ask for a slide, presentation or deck in Work, ChatGPT's agent mode for longer tasks, describing the topic, audience and material, and attaching source files or building on an existing conversation. ChatGPT then creates an editable deck that opens in Space. If asked directly, the help article says, it will produce a PowerPoint or Google Slides file instead. The second route is to start in Space itself with Create, then Slide, picking a blank slide or a template.
Templates are central to how OpenAI pitches the feature. Users can share an example deck to set the style, build their own templates with a tool called template-creator, and share them across a team by bundling them into team plugins. OpenAI's Space guide offers a sample request for an eight-slide quarterly business review for a leadership team that should "preserve the source numbers, and flag missing information." On mobile, the guide says, people can create slides through conversation and view decks, but direct editing is for the web and desktop.
Editing with ChatGPT in the loop
Once a deck exists, text, images, shapes, tables and charts can be edited by hand. To hand a change to ChatGPT, a user selects an element and chooses Request edits, or types a deck-wide instruction in the prompt bar, such as shortening a slide for executives, updating a chart from new data or revising a layout. ChatGPT can also generate images for slides, or users can upload their own.
Fonts depend on where the work happens. On the web, the font picker shows fonts available in the browser; on the desktop, ChatGPT can use fonts installed on the computer. That matters for companies with brand typefaces, since a deck built on one machine may look different elsewhere. Both the help article and the Space guide tell users to check facts, figures and layout before presenting, an acknowledgement that generated numbers and charts still need a human review.
Working on a deck together
Decks are shared with teammates, and anyone with edit access can work on the same slides at the same time. Shared comments support @mentions of colleagues, and users can also @mention ChatGPT to have the agent make a change, or @mention their dot, the always-on agent OpenAI introduced at DevDay. That puts an AI collaborator inside the comment thread rather than in a separate chat window.
One common control is missing for now: comment-only access "isn't available at launch," so a reviewer who should comment but not edit cannot be given that role. For teams that circulate decks to managers or clients for feedback, that may push the review step back into exported files until OpenAI adds finer permissions.
Presenting and exporting
Decks can be presented directly from ChatGPT, and the Space guide mentions speaker notes. On the web, presentations export to PowerPoint, for further editing as a .pptx file, to PDF for a view-only copy, or to Google Slides. In the desktop app, OpenAI offers to open the deck in PowerPoint or Keynote when those apps are installed, and on macOS to show the file in Finder.
OpenAI tells users to open exported files and check their content and formatting before using them. That caveat is common to every tool that converts between presentation formats, because layouts, fonts and charts rarely survive a round trip perfectly, but OpenAI has not described which elements might change.
Where Slides fits in ChatGPT
Slides completes a set of document tools OpenAI has been building into ChatGPT. Pages, its collaborative documents, arrived with Space on 29 September. GPT-6 Astra, introduced in September, was pitched as able to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations that follow templates. A separate ChatGPT for PowerPoint add-in, generally available since July for all plans including Free, already works from a sidebar inside Microsoft's app. Slides is different because the deck lives in ChatGPT, alongside the chats, files and agents that produced it, much as ChatGPT's Chrome extension pulls browser work into the same place.
Rivals are approaching the same job from the other direction. Anthropic's Claude can edit Google Docs, Sheets and Slides from a sidebar inside Google's apps, and independent developers have shipped Claude-built clones of Office apps including a presentation editor. The same OpenAI release-notes block also says GPT-6 Pro in the Chat tab can now split a task across several agents working in parallel, rolling out to eligible Pro users.
What OpenAI has not said
OpenAI has not said whether Slides use counts against plan allowances, how many people can edit a deck at once, or which regions get it first; the release notes and help article are silent on all three. It has not said when Plus or other plans might get Slides, or when the Windows 10 limitation might be lifted.
AI Lookout has not used ChatGPT Slides, and there are no independent tests yet of how well it follows templates, keeps source numbers accurate or survives export to PowerPoint and Google Slides. Everything here comes from OpenAI's release notes, help article, Space guide and product page. The useful early test for teams will be simple: whether a deck built from real notes needs less fixing than one made by hand, and whether it still looks right after export.
Common questions
Which ChatGPT plans get Slides?
OpenAI says Slides is rolling out to eligible Pro, Business and Enterprise users who have Space access, on the web and in the desktop app. Free, Go and Plus are not listed.
Can I export ChatGPT Slides to PowerPoint or Google Slides?
Yes. On the web, decks export to PowerPoint (.pptx), PDF or Google Slides, and the desktop app can open a deck in PowerPoint or Keynote if they are installed.
Does ChatGPT Slides work on Windows 10?
Not as collaborative decks in the desktop app. Windows 10 lacks the required MXC component, so local slide creation produces PowerPoint files; OpenAI suggests cloud mode or the web instead.
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