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Grammarly taps the power of generative AI with a new office tool that pits it against Google and Microsoft

  • Grammarly Business uses artificial intelligence to do things like summarise email threads and compose replies
  • The move is part of an effort to pivot from a grammar-and-spelling checker for the education industry to a corporate communications tool

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Grammarly is seeking to pivot from a classroom tool to a professional business assistant as it integrates generative AI into its new offerings. Photo: Shutterstock
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Grammarly Inc, a software company known for its writing assistant, is trying to expand its business to the office by harnessing artificial intelligence.

The company is rolling out a new product called Grammarly Business, using generative AI to streamline corporate communications. Among its features, the software can summarise key points in a long email string, identify whether the information is already shared within the organisation and compose a reply, Grammarly said Tuesday at an event introducing the product. The tool can connect to other common office applications such as Slack and Gmail, identify priority tasks for employees and compose a response to colleagues across different messaging apps.

“We’ve been helping our users with AI to communicate more effectively for over a decade, now it’s time to go beyond words,” Grammarly chief executive officer Rahul Roy-Chowdhury said at the event.

The first features for Grammarly Business will be available for customers to test in June, with additional functionality added over time, according to the company.

The move is part of San Francisco-based Grammarly’s effort to ride the generative AI wave and pivot from a grammar-and-spelling checker used by the education industry to a corporate communications and workflow tool. Generative AI uses huge amounts of data to produce text or images in response to a prompt. Grammarly’s software will face fierce competition from big technology companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft Corp, which are adding artificial intelligence features to their popular office products.
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