Alibaba launches AI-assisted slide-deck creation tool through cloud storage platform Quark
- Quark’s AI PPT tool, priced at US$2.66 per month, can automatically generate slides based on preset topics or user requests
- Quark is one of four businesses designated by new Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming to undergo ‘strategic-level innovations’
Quark’s new service, called AI PPT, lets users create their own topics or choose from a list that includes options, such as an online marketing campaign, a business plan, or product launch event. Once users confirm an outline generated by the app, it will produce a relevant slide deck based on a design template.
The tool, accessible through smartphones, is able to create a set of slides in just seconds, according to a test done by the Post on Friday.
AI PPT gives users the flexibility to tweak the outline by adding or deleting elements. Users can also fine-tune a template for greater customisation.
By combining “content and intelligent tools”, the service is expected to raise users’ productivity, Zhang Fan, head of Quark’s search product, said in a statement earlier this week.
