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For decades, presentation decks have been, well, a pain. Whether they used PowerPoint or Google Slides, they tended to be monotonous and could be awkward to create and share.
However, in the past few months, several applications and platforms have begun integrating generative AI options, including text and image generation tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, to power up your deck and make storytelling less difficult to make.
Of course, with the recent news that Microsoft might add ChatGPT and other OpenAI tools to PowerPoint — and you can imagine Google will follow with efforts in Slides — Big Tech isn’t going to make things go smoothly for startups in the space. But either way, there’s no doubt that simple workplace presentation will never be the same again.
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Tome releases GPT-3 powered generative storytelling features
The latest upgrade comes from San Francisco-based startup Tome, which added DALL-E to its beta version of flexible, interactive slide options in November.
Today the company, which is led by Meta product veterans Keith Peiris and Henri Liriani, has released a new suite of generative storytelling features powered by GPT-3. They’re built for what a press release called “intuitive collaboration with AI” — including text rewriting, length and tone adjustments, and generative customization of prompt bars. For example, makers can now choose the most appropriate tone of voice: inspiring, formal, informal, objective, convincing or playful. Creators can also specify the output type (presentation, story, or sketch), as well as the graphic style (such as Neo-Impressionist, Pop Art, Fantasy, Cyberpunk, or Anime).
“We built Tome to be a responsive, intelligent partner, not a static page,” says Peiris. “So for us, weaving generative AI into Tome was a no-brainer.”
Beautiful AI offers presentation generation in one go
Meanwhile, San Francisco-based business-focused Beautiful AI jumped into the mix earlier this month with DesignerBot.
The company says it’s the first AI software of its kind that can generate a fully realized presentation with one simple text prompt. It can create 10 to 20 PowerPoint slides from that single prompt, including layout, text, photos and icons – it extracts the best insight into the results and decides whether each part is best presented as bullets, charts, pictures or a straight text slide.
The generative AI space is evolving so fast that the company has already developed a new product roadmap to meet the needs of its corporate enterprise customers, CEO Jason Lapp told VentureBeat.
“The biggest challenge we have to solve — and we’re going to solve it this year — is how to take private, secure enterprise-level data and marry it [these capabilities]? We are actively looking at how we can build this in,” he said.
Canva targets business users with generative AI
In December, Canva, the popular Australian-based graphic design platform, announced new efforts to target corporate business users with the release of Canva Documentsin which the company is incorporated recently released text-to-image beta built on Stable Diffusion, as well as Magic Write, an AI-powered copywriting assistant built on OpenAIs GPT-3.
Cameron Adams, Canva’s co-founder and chief product officer, says the company started allowing users to create presentations in Canva in 2015, which was “a really pivotal moment,” he explained to VentureBeat last month . During COVID-19, he added, remote workers had to communicate differently with colleagues and were looking for tools.
“We saw a huge spike in presentation growth and now we are at about 40 million presentations being created in Canva each month,” he said. “So we started laying the groundwork for a more team-based view of what Canva is.”
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