Ep 883: How To Make Slides with AI: Hands on Comparison With the 9 Most Popular Options (Replay)
October 16, 2026
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5 min readHow to Make Slides with AI: A Hands-On Comparison of 9 Options
The host of the Everyday AI podcast, Jordan Wilson, ran a live, unscripted test of nine different AI tools for generating slide decks, using the same deliberately simple prompt for each: "Please look up the latest AI News That Matters episode from the Everyday AI podcast by Jordan Wilson. Please create a slide deck giving each of the main stories a one-slide recap, one intro slide, and one outro slide." The goal was not to find a perfect tool, but to see how each handled prompt adherence, tool calling, and taste—three criteria that matter more than flashy output.
Why Slide Generation Has Suddenly Become Viable
For years, AI struggled to create decent slides. Then, quietly, a wave of capable tools arrived around the same time as reasoning models and agentic systems—roughly six to nine months ago. Most people missed this shift because the spotlight was elsewhere. But the capability is now baked into many large language models by default. As Wilson put it, "I remember telling people like nine months ago, people didn't know that you could just create a spreadsheet in ChatGPT or create a PowerPoint in Claude. And now, finally, with Google Gemini catching up to the pack, all of the big players by default can create artifacts like that if you just use the right model and ask it to."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:01) **Why AI Slide Generation Deserves Another Look** - Jordan introduces the episode's mission: test 9+ AI slide tools live to find which actually works for beginners, since slide generation quietly matured while everyone focused on reasoning models and agents.
- 2 (02:07) **The Big Picture: Capabilities That Sneaked In** - Jordan explains why slide generation is now a default capability in most major LLMs, and why that matters for on-demand personalized decks.
- 3 (03:52) **Setup and Ground Rules for the Live Test** - Jordan explains his intentionally simple testing methodology: same vague prompt, basic paid plans, no special skills or plugins.
- 4 (07:35) **Claude Design: First Impressions and Follow-Up Questions** - Jordan starts with Claude Design, noting its powerful but token-hungry nature, and walks through its custom follow-up prompts.
- 5 (12:20) **Claude (Standard) vs. Gamma: Speed vs. Hallucination** - Jordan tests standard Claude Opus 4.8 and Gamma, noting Gamma's early-mover advantage and its tendency to hallucinate.
- 6 (14:26) **Google Gemini and Google Slides: Artifact Creation Arrives** - Jordan tests Google's three entries: Gemini, Google Slides, and NotebookLM, noting Gemini's long-awaited artifact creation capability.
- 7 (19:59) **ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Canva: Web-Based Contenders** - Jordan tests ChatGPT (GPT-5 thinking), Microsoft Copilot online, and Canva, noting different interface quirks and web-browsing abilities.
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Show Notes
No matter your role, experience or industry, we all (mostly) waste hours a week doing the same thing: manually creating slides.
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Most business leaders miss the obvious: there’s dozens of AI tools and LLMs that make slides and you probably didn’t know.
Case in point: Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT and Gemini can all create slides by default that you can download or edit with natural language.
And that’s just the start.
So why are you and Deborah meeting 3 times a month about the quarterly KPI again?
Just watch this and save some time.
Ep 883: How To Make Slides with AI: Hands on Comparison With the 9 Most Popular Options (Replay)
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Topics Covered in This Episode:
- AI Slide Generation Tool Comparison Demo
- Claude Design vs. Claude Opus Slide Outputs
- Gamma AI Presentation Hallucinations & Errors
- Google Gemini Slide Creation Capabilities Explained
- Google Slides AI-Powered Deck Generation Workflow
- NotebookLM Nano Banana Slide Deck Evaluation
- ChatGPT Slide Creation Quality Assessment
- Microsoft Copilot and PowerPoint Integration
- Canva AI Slide Deck Hallucination Issues
- Best AI Tools for Slide Deck Creation
Timestamps:
00:00 AI tools for slide generation
03:12 Slide generation tools comparison
08:43 Creating AI news recap slide deck
12:35 Discussing Gamma's early entry
14:57 Google Gemini's new features
18:55 Using Google's BookLM tool
20:58 Microsoft Copilot online demo
23:56 How to access the start here series
28:54 Using Chat GPT in PowerPoint
32:05 Discussing AI design aesthetics
35:14 Reviewing main stories and updates
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