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3+ Years in the AI Era, Google’s Gemini Still Generates One Slide at a Time
Did you know that Gemini can only create one Google Slides at a time? And here’s a really good alternative to it.
Google is currently at the forefront of the generative AI market. It is one of the leading companies in the competition for the best LLM and image/video models. In fact, if you visit the LMArena leaderboard, you will consistently see a variety of Google-owned models ranking near the top of the charts for performance and capability
However, despite this technical dominance, there is one specific use case where Google seems to have completely dropped the ball: native presentation generation.
If you open Google Slides, activate the Gemini sidebar, and ask it to generate a full slide deck for a specific topic, it simply will not be able to execute the request.
Prompt: Can you generate a slide deck about the growth of AI adoption in the past 5 years?
As you can see from the response, it outright refused to create a multi-slide deck. It creates a single slide and even…