Grammarly's Generative AI feature will be able to write, interpret, and edit text in the near future

The functionality, which will be released in April, will be available instantly across applications and websites like Medium, LinkedIn, Microsoft Word, Gmail, and Google Documents.

Grammarly, an AI-powered writing helper, announced Thursday the debut of GrammarlyGo, a generative AI tool that will allow users to brainstorm ideas, produce writing, edit, and customise material. It’s the newest AI-powered product from the firm, which began as a grammar checker in 2009 but has since grown to provide writing suggestions as well as changes to clarity, conciseness, and tone.

Users may utilise the new capability, which is based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 big language models, to offer brief instructions to generate whole draughts of writing and transform bullet points to paragraphs. Users can provide feedback and context to the tool in order for it to rewrite a piece of text based on a chosen tone (such as professional, confident, or friendly) and length (shorter or longer). GrammarlyGo can also read an email’s intent, reduce it into a single line, and suggest email reply alternatives depending on the context of prior emails.

These generative AI tools will be offered to Grammarly’s 30 million users in April via the Grammarly browser extension, and will gradually be pushed out across 500,000 websites, desktop and mobile applications where Grammarly is present. GrammarlyGo features will be available on applications like as Medium, LinkedIn, Gmail, and Google Documents. “This is our take on generative AI,” says Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, Grammarly’s global head of product. “We are present everywhere that people write. It’s not just a single app, it’s not just a single OS, it’s everywhere.”

Grammarly has been developing and implementing a mix of technologies such as deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing, and language models to propose fixes to people’s work for the past 14 years. Grammarly’s algorithm is trained using millions of grammatically accurate sentences, user input, and writing experiences. Grammarly, which has an AI and machine learning team of 100 engineers, scientists, and linguists, is licencing Open AI’s buzzy technology and combining it with its existing technologies as it seeks to advance beyond the correction phase of writing to encompass understanding and creativity abilities.

The news comes after ChatGPT went popular late last year, surpassing 100 million users in January 2023. The conversational chatbot has sparked a generative AI frenzy, with multiple generative AI startups developing, as well as other organisations such as Meta, Tome, Salesforce, and Roblox betting on technological improvements in language models.

But, as interest and financing in the technology has increased, so has scepticism. Instructors are concerned that kids would use ChatGPT to accomplish writing tasks faster, and school districts around the country have restricted ChatGPT from school devices. As a result, when Grammarly launches its generative AI function in April, school administrators will be able to choose whether to enable the tool on school devices for children. Individual users, on the other hand, will have their generative AI capabilities enabled automatically.

Grammarly was developed with the assistance of programmer and cofounder Dmytro Lider by Ukrainian-born entrepreneurs and billionaires Max Lytvyn and Alex Shevchenko. Grammarly raised $200 million and was valued at $13 billion in November 2021, increasing its total venture capital financing garnered to $400 million. Before Grammarly, Lytvyn and Shevchenko launched MyDropBox, a plagiarism detection application that was eventually bought by the edtech business Blackboard. Grammarly now checks for plagiarism but does not check for AI-generated material.

Source: Rashi Shrivastava| Scoop.it