Keith Peiris says he started to see the generative AI writing on the wall six months ago. Peiris is the cofounder and chief executive of Tome, a San Francisco startup that makes presentation software juiced with generative AI. The company launched its product in early 2022 with a healthy cushion of 32 million in venture capital funding, and successfully surfed the ChatGPT hype wave after that, raising even more funding in early 2023. Venture capitalist and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt, and Stability.ai's Tome had one problem, though: It wasn't generating meaningful revenue.

A fast-growing startup just released a first-of-its-kind tool that can turn your documents into presentations -- beating both Google and Microsoft to the punch. The startup: In September 2022, San Francisco-based startup Tome launched a free product similar to Powerpoint, but with features that make it easier to create presentations on mobile and to add a range of visuals, from tweets to videos, into slides. In December, Tome integrated generative AI -- software trained to produce text, images, and other content on demand -- into the product. "We want to use AI to shape and aid in every part of the process." This gave users the ability to use research firm OpenAI's GPT-3 model and DALL-E 2 tool to quickly and easily generate original text and images, respectively, for their presentations without leaving the Tome platform.

Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. For Tome, which calls itself the "new storytelling format for work and important ideas," integrating OpenAI's DALL-E into its flexible, interactive slide options -- which it announced today -- was a natural fit to add a generative AI dimension to decks. When OpenAI announced the release of the DALL-E API in early November, the San-Francisco-based startup had its chance. "Making that a part of the storytelling creation experience just felt really natural," Tome CEO Keith Peiris told VentureBeat. "It felt so much more powerful than looking for a stock photo or clip art -- it's kind of giving us a first look at what generative storytelling can look like."