Release 5.0

The current release of SlideDeck AI introduces the following changes:

• Add images to the slides (background and foreground).
• Create a slide with icons and short texts.
• Add new templates.
• Switch to Mistral Nemo.
• Upgrade libraries.

Overall, v5.0 enhances the visual aspects of a slide deck.

Release 4.1

The current release of SlideDeck AI introduces the following changes:

• Use shapes to display a step-by-step process or a key message in a slide.
• Use json_repair to fix any malformed JSON generated by the LLM.
• Change the 'Blank' presentation template to 'Basic' and add background images.

Release 4.0

The current release of SlideDeck AI introduces the following changes:

• A chat interface to create a slide deck and iteratively refine it.
• Move the PPT template selection into a side panel.
• Two different prompts are used for initial content generation and subsequent refinement.
• Include instructions in the prompt to make the LLM try to fix JSON errors. In addition, update usage instructions to allow users to try to do the same. However, these are not fool-proof and JSON parsing errors might still be encountered.
• Retry HF Inference endpoint calls up to a fixed number of times in case the connection fails.

Release 3.0

The current release of SlideDeck AI introduces the following changes:

• Use Mistral 7B instruction-tuned v0.2 as the LLM for content generation.
• Make the content of the slides more descriptive.
• Also, users can specify an approximate number of slides to be created as part of the prompt, see examples/example_04.json.

Release v2.0

Release 2.0

The second release of SlideDeck AI supports the following features:

• Content generation (using Mistral 7B Instruct; previously used Llama 2)
• Web references (fetched using Metaphor)

The AI image generation feature has been disabled. However, the code is retained, should you want to use it locally.

SlideDeck AI is still a prototype. It would help if you scrutinized it before deploying it to a production environment.

Release v1.0

Release 1.0

The first release of SlideDeck AI, which supports the following features:

• Content generation (using Llama 2)
• Web references (fetched using Metaphor)
• Concept art (using Stable Diffusion)
• Request caching (Streamlit native support)

SlideDeck AI is still a prototype. You should inspect it carefully before deploying it to a production environment.