‘Google Slides and PowerPoint Are Dead.’ Did AI Really Kill the Corporate Deck?

PowerPoint may soon be facing match point. People have been predicting the death of presentation software for decades, but AI strategist Peter Gostev reignited the debate last week with a LinkedIn post declaring “Google Slides & PowerPoint are dead,” according to LinkedIn News.

Why? The argument is that AI can now build interactive, web-based presentations from a simple prompt. Anthropic’s Claude Design turns a rough outline into an on-brand deck that exports as standalone HTML, as well as PowerPoint. Microsoft is fighting back by building AI editing directly into PowerPoint, and says new-user retention for the feature jumped 36%.

But some business owners are hungry for a new way to communicate. AI coach Braydon Carter says entrepreneurs at a recent mastermind asked him to teach them how he builds his presentations as websites using AI coding tools.

Not everyone is a fan. Skeptics point out that HTML decks are hard to edit without AI, and some corporate email filters block HTML attachments. E-Tabs founder Benjamin Rietti doesn’t think PowerPoint is going anywhere. What’s dying, he says, is “the old way of producing those decks”: the late nights, endless copying and pasting, and last-minute number checks.

PowerPoint may soon be facing match point. People have been predicting the death of presentation software for decades, but AI strategist Peter Gostev reignited the debate last week with a LinkedIn post declaring “Google Slides & PowerPoint are dead,” according to LinkedIn News.

Why? The argument is that AI can now build interactive, web-based presentations from a simple prompt. Anthropic’s Claude Design turns a rough outline into an on-brand deck that exports as standalone HTML, as well as PowerPoint. Microsoft is fighting back by building AI editing directly into PowerPoint, and says new-user retention for the feature jumped 36%.

But some business owners are hungry for a new way to communicate. AI coach Braydon Carter says entrepreneurs at a recent mastermind asked him to teach them how he builds his presentations as websites using AI coding tools.

Not everyone is a fan. Skeptics point out that HTML decks are hard to edit without AI, and some corporate email filters block HTML attachments. E-Tabs founder Benjamin Rietti doesn’t think PowerPoint is going anywhere. What’s dying, he says, is “the old way of producing those decks”: the late nights, endless copying and pasting, and last-minute number checks.