# What are AI Slides?

AI Slides is an AI-powered presentation workspace that enables deck generation, visual storytelling, layout design, and contextual understanding of topics through natural language instructions.

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### Getting Started with AI Slides

AI Slides offers two distinct generation modes for your presentations:

* **Classic Mode**: Generates classic slides with standard layouts and editable elements.
* **Studio Mode**: Generates Nano Banana slides, where all slides and their content are rendered entirely as high-quality images.

You can create a presentation in two ways:

* **Prompt-based creation** – Describe your topic or paste an outline, and AI generates a fully designed slide deck.
* **Templates** – Choose from pre-built themes for common use cases. You can choose from:
  * Pitch Decks
  * Project proposal
  * Portfolio
  * Education
  * Business

### Designing and Editing with AI

AI Slides allows you to improve your presentations using:

1. **Edit with Chat** – Create new slides, generate images, or change layouts through conversation with AI.
2. **Auto Design** – Automatically adjust fonts, colors, and alignment to match professional design standards.
3. **Shorten** – Summarize dense paragraphs into concise, easy-to-read bullet points suitable for slides.
4. **Expand** – Elaborate on brief points to fill a slide or generate accompanying speaker notes.

All AI changes can be reviewed and edited manually at any time.

### Manual Editing & Rich Content

In addition to AI editing, you can:

* Manually edit text and formatting
* Insert images and links
* Mix AI-generated and human-written content seamlessly
* Customize layouts and structure freely

AI Slides works like a full presentation editor with AI assistance built in.

### Files, Images & Attachments

You can upload files to generate slides from or to use as reference context.

* **Documents**: `.pdf`, `.docx`, `.pptx`, `.xlsx`, `.txt`, `.csv`, `.json`, `.md`, `.html`, `.epub`
* **Images**: `.jpg`, `.jpeg`, `.png`, `.gif`, `.webp`
* **File size**: up to 25 MB per file.
* **Maximum files per document**: Up to 5 files
* **Maximum file size**: 20 MB per file

### AI Tools Available in Slides

AI Slides supports the following AI-powered actions to help build your deck:

* Search documents&#x20;
* Understand images
* Analyze External Links Provided
* **Search the internet** to gather and reference information

These tools help enrich your document with context, research, and external data.

### Exporting Documents

You can manually export your slides in standard formats for sharing and publishing.

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#### Supported Export Formats

* PPTX
* PDF

Exports preserve structure, formatting, and embedded content.

### Present Mode

Launch a full-screen presentation instantly within Chatly to share your ideas without downloading files.


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