Grammarly Acquires AI Email Client Superhuman 14
Grammarly has acquired the AI email client Superhuman to enhance its AI-driven productivity suite and expand AI capabilities within email communication. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra and his team will be joining the AI writing company. TechCrunch reports: Superhuman was founded by Rahul Vohra, Vivek Sodera, and Conrad Irwin. The company raised more than $114 million in funding from backers including a16z, IVP, and Tiger Global, with its last valuation at $825 million, according to data from venture data analytics firm Traxcn. "With Superhuman, we can deliver that future to millions more professionals while giving our existing users another surface for agent collaboration that simply doesn't exist anywhere else. Email isn't just another app; it's where professionals spend significant portions of their day, and it's the perfect staging ground for orchestrating multiple AI agents simultaneously," Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly, said in a statement.
With this deal, CEO Vohra and other Superhuman employees are moving over to Grammarly. "Email is the main communication tool for billions of people worldwide and the number-one use case for Grammarly customers. By joining forces with Grammarly, we will invest even more in the core Superhuman experience, as well as create a new way of working where AI agents collaborate across the communication tools that we all use every day," Rahul Vohra, CEO of Superhuman, said in a statement.
With this deal, CEO Vohra and other Superhuman employees are moving over to Grammarly. "Email is the main communication tool for billions of people worldwide and the number-one use case for Grammarly customers. By joining forces with Grammarly, we will invest even more in the core Superhuman experience, as well as create a new way of working where AI agents collaborate across the communication tools that we all use every day," Rahul Vohra, CEO of Superhuman, said in a statement.
Grammarly? (Score:2)
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It's a grammar assistant for MS Office, *very* popular by my place. I think it sends everything to their cloud so it might steal all your patent drafts, who knows.
I use a local languagetool.org instance which works well but hangs LibreOffice for several seconds when opening very long documents (e.g. 100+ pages to analyse).
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You don't use grammarly to have soul in writing, but to be formally correct.
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Workplace use cases: 1. people writing in languages they are not native of; 2. collaborative edition with people of different language styles; 3. to catch a few more involuntary errors (e.g. repeated words).
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Your observation is that MS Office does a poor job correcting grammar. What the another commenter above said, and what my work colleagues also say, is that the paid version of Grammarly is significantly better.
Incomprehensible PR rah-rah (Score:2)
[...] giving our existing users another surface for agent collaboration that simply doesn't exist anywhere else. Email isn't just another app; it's where professionals spend significant portions of their day, and it's the perfect staging ground for orchestrating multiple AI agents simultaneously
Did you understand anything in that marketdroid BS? I didn't.
All this screams to me is: avoid - avoid - avoid.
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1. Many people now wants an AI agent, or several of them. 2. One typical task for AI agents is to interact with humans through email. 3. Everybody keeps the professional email application open all day (many managers seem to spend their whole day writing emails). 4. Therefore one good place for the user to interact with the AI agent control interface within the email client.
This way the AI agent knows immediately which email you're looking at and what is the contents of your current drafts, and can make real
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[...] giving our existing users another surface for agent collaboration that simply doesn't exist anywhere else. Email isn't just another app; it's where professionals spend significant portions of their day, and it's the perfect staging ground for orchestrating multiple AI agents simultaneously
Did you understand anything in that marketdroid BS? I didn't.
All this screams to me is: avoid - avoid - avoid.
Once Grammarly shifted from a decent suggestion engine for grammar to an AI "we must gather all your writing into our servers" pusher "USE OUR AI GENERATED SUGGESTIONS! THEY'RE BETTER AT WRITING THAN YOU ARE!" they've been untrustable. Not that I trusted them much before, but at least when it was a locally installed system used to check grammar and style that you could somewhat control it could be useful. Once they went full AI, not only were their suggestions crap, but their terms of service essentially tu
"Financial terms were not disclosed" (Score:3)