Grammarly acquires Superhuman email to bolster its AI agent plans

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Grammarly has announced plans to buy Superhuman, a popular email app, according to a press release. 

This move makes sense because email is already the most common way people use Grammarly professionally. 

The company says its AI assistant helps edit and improve over 50 million emails every week across more than 20 different email platforms. 

By buying Superhuman, Grammarly will now have its own email app where it can better show off what its AI can do.

But Grammarly isn’t just trying to improve emails — it has bigger plans involving AI. Like many other tech companies today, Grammarly wants to create “AI agents.”

These are smart software programs designed to handle specific tasks for users. 

Grammarly wants to become a productivity platform filled with these agents, instead of just being a single tool for checking grammar and spelling.

According to the press release, email is the perfect place to start using these AI agents. 

Many professionals spend over three hours a day reading and writing emails, so Grammarly sees an opportunity to save people time and effort. 

The company imagines a future where users can work with several AI agents at once. 

For example, if you’re writing an important email to a customer, you could have a communication agent to perfect your tone, a sales agent to suggest persuasive language, a support agent to include answers to common questions, and a marketing agent to make your message more engaging.

Grammarly wants these agents to work together to help people do more in less time. 

However, whether these plans succeed depends on how well Grammarly can turn its vision into real products, especially since tech giants like OpenAI and Google are also working on similar AI-powered tools.

This isn’t Grammarly’s first big move: late last year, it bought the productivity company Coda, and Coda’s CEO, Shishir Mehrotra, is now the head of the combined company.

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