Generate exquisite PPT with one click, and the artifact of the worker is here!

Original: Kuang Cuibiao

Source: AI Faner

Image source: Generated by Unbounded AI tool

Preface

The importance of PPT in today’s society is self-evident. There should be almost no professional who has not written PPT. Writing PPT in the traditional way is full of pain. Starting with a blank mind, we often fall into confusion, lack of creativity, and the dilemma of choosing words and pictures, and have to spend a lot of time and energy editing, adjusting and optimizing the content. Trivial details such as typography, fonts, and color matching make us exhausted, but the final effect may not be as we hoped.

In order to solve the pain points in traditional PPT production, people try to use PPT templates, chart generation tools and plug-ins to improve efficiency. Although these attempts have improved the production process to a certain extent, they have not completely solved the core problem of lack of creativity.

AI writing PPT is not only a tool to improve efficiency in the production process, but also a leader in bringing innovation and inspiration to traditional PPT production. It is gradually changing our traditional PPT production methods, truly integrating creativity and efficiency, and bringing users a more convenient and surprising presentation experience.

Figure: Popular AI PPT tools on the market

With the development of large language models, AI tools for writing PPT have sprung up, and what we are going to introduce today is Gamma, which is currently the hottest. In fact, earlier, more people knew that AI writing ppt should be another app, Tome, but in May of this year, Gamma’s visits surpassed that of Tome, and it has been the number one in many rankings for a long time.

We can simply disassemble the process of writing PPT into two parts: content and format. The content part often requires some thinking and creativity. Many people rack their brains and stay up late to write PPT. Most likely they are stuck in this part. The other part is the format, which often requires some aesthetic and design capabilities. There are many special books teaching people how to design PPT, such as “PPT Design Book for Everyone”, most of these books teach some basic design concepts, while almost all other books teach how to use Powerpoint or keynote.

But now, these two parts can be directly handed over to AI to handle, all you have to do is to give it an instruction ().

Gamma usage

Log in to the Gamma website (you can see the right side like this, here you can do three things: create (PPT, webpage or file) through AI, create a file from a blank, and import from an existing Word or ppt file.

Here, we choose to use AI to create a new one, and then the options will pop up here, which are: use AI to generate all content (generate) or let AI generate specific content (text transform) with the outline written by ourselves, here Select Generate:

Next, choose whether to make a PPT, a file or a web page. I now have a PPT (Presentation):

In order to make a PPT, we need to tell AI a topic. The topic we assume to write here is: the history of Chinese pop music development. After submission, AI will generate an outline. If you feel dissatisfied, you can try again (Try again), or you can directly edit the generated content (add, delete or modify), and continue after everything is completed.

Next, AI will generate relevant content according to the outline and make it into a PPT. But so far, we have only done one thing - tell AI what topic to write PPT, what about the format?

During the generation process, you can select a ppt template on the right, and many are provided by default, and these templates can also be edited:

Gamma supports a function, which is to edit the PPT through AI again after generating the PPT, such as modifying the content, style, or adding a new page of PPT:

When everything is done, we can directly share the PPT with others or download it locally. If you want to share, you can select “Share” at the top, then open “Public access” in “Share publicly”, and then “Copy public link” to share the link with others.

If you want to download to the local, select Export, and then choose to download PDF or PPT format, if it is in PPT format, of course, you can also go to Powerpoint for secondary editing.

The PPT made by Gamma is basically remarkable in terms of aesthetics, but because the content is based on GPT, users still need to be good at writing prompts, otherwise the intended effect may not be achieved. We can use ChatGPT to generate the outline separately, and then use Gamma to generate specific content and styles. (Select the aforementioned Text Transform)

Gamma is a paid application, with 400 credits free by default. Every time a PPT is created through AI, it will cost 40 credits, and editing a PPT through AI will cost 10 credits. Of course, like most AI tools today, Gamma Subscription models are also available, with Plus and Pro versions.

About Gamma

As a Marvel fan, I am deeply impressed by the Hulk Hulk. Dr. Banner is a world-renowned physicist. Later, whenever he was emotionally excited and his heart beat faster, he would turn into a green monster named Hulk.

And the founder of this AI PPT company also hopes that people can get their unprecedented huge energy when writing PPT. But this company may have forgotten that only anger can become the Hulk. I hope we will not be full of anger when we write PPT.

Gamma was founded by Grant Lee and his co-founders James Fox and Jon Noronha, both former Optimizely employees (Optimizely was acquired by Episerver in 2020).

The company was established in November 2020 and launched an internal beta version in August last year. In October 2021, it announced that it had received $7 million in seed funding led by Accel. Other participants in the round include Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner; founders of Airtable, Patreon, Segment, Honey and Optimizely; early-stage funds including Capital, South Park Commons, LocalGlobe, Afore, and Hustle Fund.

With the popularity of generative artificial intelligence, in March this year, Gamma integrated generative AI technology, introducing AI assistant and automatic document generation capabilities into Gamma. The models currently used include OpenAI and Anthropic, etc., and they are continuously testing and Update, and strive to integrate the most cutting-edge technology into Gamma.

write at the end

The Gamma financing information shown in the public information is still two years ago, which does not seem to be a good signal. According to statistics, in the PPT field, Microsoft Powerpoint and Canva accounted for 70% of the market share (30% and 40% respectively), and these two companies have added AI to their products this year in addition to their strong capital. Function.

According to Microsoft, Office Copilot is capable of creating PowerPoint presentations that summarize information from user-selected Word documents and Excel spreadsheets or from user prompts. Additionally, the tool can adjust presentation styles, text formatting, and animation timing based on user prompts, eliminating the need for users to make manual changes. Copilot is also able to shorten lengthy presentations. Microsoft is also the major shareholder behind the most powerful AI company OpenAI (that is, the company that launched ChatGPT).

One of the most fearful things about starting a business is that the project you are working on is done by a large platform company. Such cases are very common at home and abroad. It’s hard to imagine how long companies like Gamma or Tome can survive in this situation.

AI PPT will always exist, but unfortunately, Gamma may not really be.