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'''Grammarly''' is an English language writing assistant software tool. It reviews the spelling, grammar, and tone of a piece of writing as well as identifying possible instances of [[plagiarism]]. It can also suggest style and tonal recommendations to users and produce writing from prompts with its [[Generative artificial intelligence|generative AI]] capabilities.
'''Grammarly''' is a [[Ukraine]]-founded<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-26 |title=How Grammarly Is Honoring Our Commitment to Ukraine |url=https://www.grammarly.com/blog/support-for-ukraine/ |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=How Grammarly Is Honoring Our Commitment to Ukraine {{!}} Grammarly Blog |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-20 |title=Grammarly Stands With Ukraine |url=https://www.grammarly.com/blog/support-ukraine-2023/ |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=Grammarly Supports and Stands With Ukraine {{!}} Grammarly |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> [[Cloud computing|cloud]]-based<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doyle |first=Alison |date=October 3, 2020 |title=What Is Grammarly? |url=https://www.thebalancecareers.com/grammarly-proofreading-and-grammar-checker-review-2062231 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228010327/https://www.thebalancecareers.com/grammarly-proofreading-and-grammar-checker-review-2062231 |archive-date=February 28, 2021 |access-date=March 17, 2022 |website=The Balance Careers}}</ref> typing assistant, headquartered in [[San Francisco]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=n.d. |title=Grammarly |url=https://www.forbes.com/companies/grammarly/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112154209/https://www.forbes.com/companies/grammarly/ |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |access-date=March 17, 2022 |website=[[Forbes]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=n.d. |title=Grammarly Inc |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1508639D:US |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130023056/https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1508639D:US |archive-date=January 30, 2022 |access-date=March 17, 2022 |website=[[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Contact Us {{!}} Grammarly |url=https://www.grammarly.com/contact |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=www.grammarly.com |language=en-US}}</ref> It reviews spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, engagement, and delivery mistakes in [[English language|English]] texts, detects [[plagiarism]], and suggests replacements for the identified errors.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moore |first=Ben |date=July 16, 2020 |title=Grammarly Review |url=https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/grammarly |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410230836/https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/grammarly |archive-date=April 10, 2021 |access-date=March 17, 2022 |website=PCMag}}</ref> It also allows users to customize their style, tone, and context-specific language.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lardinois|first=Frederic|date=July 16, 2019|title=Grammarly goes beyond grammar|url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/16/grammarly-goes-beyond-grammar/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115235240/https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/16/grammarly-goes-beyond-grammar/|archive-date=January 15, 2021|access-date=June 3, 2021|website=[[Techcrunch]]}}</ref>


Grammarly was launched in 2009 by {{ill|Alex Shevchenko|uk|Шевченко Олексій Анатолійович (програміст)}}, {{ill|Max Lytvyn|uk|Литвин Максим}}, and Dmytro Lider.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2018-09-12|title=Grammarly brings its AI-powered proofreading tools to Google Docs|url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/12/grammarly-brings-its-ai-powered-proofreading-tools-to-google-docs/|access-date=2021-05-27|website=VentureBeat|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516222832/https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/12/grammarly-brings-its-ai-powered-proofreading-tools-to-google-docs/|url-status=live}}</ref> Grammarly is available as a standalone application for use with desktop programs, a [[browser extension]] optimized for [[Google Docs]], and a smartphone keyboard.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Coberly |first=Cohen |date=2018-09-12 |title=You can finally use Grammarly within Google Docs |url=https://www.techspot.com/news/76388-you-can-finally-use-grammarly-within-google-docs.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404003542/https://www.techspot.com/news/76388-you-can-finally-use-grammarly-within-google-docs.html |archive-date=2019-04-04 |access-date=2019-04-03 |website=TechSpot}}</ref>
Grammarly was developed in [[Ukraine]] and launched in 2009 by {{ill|Alex Shevchenko|uk|Шевченко Олексій Анатолійович (програміст)}}, {{ill|Max Lytvyn|uk|Литвин Максим}}, and Dmytro Lider. It is available as a standalone application; a [[browser extension]] for [[Google Chrome|Chrome]], [[Apple Safari|Safari]], and [[Firefox]]; and as an add-on for [[Google Docs]].


Grammarly is developed by Grammarly Inc., which is headquartered in [[San Francisco]] and has offices in [[Kyiv]], [[New York City|New York]], and [[Vancouver]].
Grammarly is developed by Grammarly Inc., with hubs in [[San Francisco]], [[California]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Grammarly · 548 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94104|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grammarly/@37.790047,-122.4030627,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808580604b1f0c81:0x5b4a1994d08fb471!8m2!3d37.7900064!4d-122.4007969|access-date=2021-10-23|website=Grammarly · 548 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94104|language=en}}</ref> and offices in [[Kyiv]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2018-07-06|title=Grammarly opens new Kyiv office as demand rises for help with English {{!}} KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice|url=https://www.kyivpost.com/technology/grammarly-opens-new-kyiv-office-as-demand-rises-for-english-help.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210407125534/https://www.kyivpost.com/technology/grammarly-opens-new-kyiv-office-as-demand-rises-for-english-help.html|archive-date=2021-04-07|access-date=2021-05-27|website=KyivPost}}</ref> [[New York City]], [[Vancouver]], and [[Berlin]].<ref name="FastCompany">{{cite news|last=McCracken|first=Harry|date=2019-04-01|title=On its 10th anniversary, Grammarly looks way beyond grammar|language=en|website=Fast Company|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90327157/on-its-10th-anniversary-grammarly-looks-way-beyond-grammar|url-status=live|access-date=2019-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909052323/https://www.fastcompany.com/90327157/on-its-10th-anniversary-grammarly-looks-way-beyond-grammar|archive-date=2019-09-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=AI-powered writing assistant Grammarly opens new office in downtown Vancouver {{!}} Venture|url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/grammarly-vancouver-office|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914010852/https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/grammarly-vancouver-office|archive-date=2019-09-14|access-date=2019-11-19|website=dailyhive.com|language=en}}</ref>


== History ==
== History ==
Grammarly was founded in 2009 by Max Lytvyn, Alex Shevchenko, and Dmytro Lider.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2018-09-12|title=Grammarly brings its AI-powered proofreading tools to Google Docs|url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/12/grammarly-brings-its-ai-powered-proofreading-tools-to-google-docs/|access-date=2021-05-27|website=VentureBeat|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516222832/https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/12/grammarly-brings-its-ai-powered-proofreading-tools-to-google-docs/|url-status=live}}</ref> The company initially offered a subscription-based product intended to help students improve their grammar and spelling.<ref name=Forbes21>{{cite news |last=McEvoy |first=Jemima |date=November 23, 2021 |title=Grammarly Founders Become Billionaires From Fixing Your Sloppy Writing |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/11/23/grammarly-founders-become-billionaires-from-fixing-your-sloppy-writing/ |work=Forbes |access-date=September 19, 2024}}</ref> That product was subsequently developed into a writing assistant that checks the grammar, spelling, and tone of a piece of writing.<ref name=Forbes21/><ref name=FastCo19>{{cite news |last=McCracken |first=Harry |date=April 1, 2019 |title=On its 10th anniversary, Grammarly looks way beyond grammar |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90327157/on-its-10th-anniversary-grammarly-looks-way-beyond-grammar |work=Fast Company |access-date=September 28, 2024}}</ref><ref name=FastCo24>{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Mark |date=March 19, 2024 |title=How Grammarly's AI is writing the new rules of writing |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91033463/grammarly-most-innovative-companies-2024 |work=Fast Company |access-date=September 28, 2024}}</ref>


By 2015, Grammarly had one million active daily users.<ref name=KyivPost18>{{cite news |last=Krasnikov |first=Denys |date=July 6, 2018 |title=Grammarly opens new Kyiv office as demand rises for help with English |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7405 |work=Kyiv Post |access-date=September 19, 2024}}</ref> That same year, it began offering its flagship product via a [[freemium]] model that allowed all users access to the product's basic capabilities while placing more sophisticated features like style recommendations and plagiarism detection behind a paywall.<ref name=BizToday22>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=February 9, 2022 |title=Two of Grammarly's founders now billionaires with net worth of $4 bn each |url=https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/two-of-grammarlys-founders-now-billionaires-with-net-worth-of-4-bn-each-321945-2022-02-09 |work=Business Today |access-date=September 19, 2024}}</ref><ref name=VB19>{{cite news |last=Wiggers |first=Kyle |date=October 10, 2019 |title=Grammarly raises $90 million for AI that spots grammar errors and plagiarism |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/grammarly-raises-90-million-for-ai-that-spots-grammar-errors-and-plagiarism/ |work=VentureBeat |access-date=September 19, 2024}}</ref> It also launched a browser extension for [[Google Chrome|Chrome]], [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]], and [[Firefox]], as well as an add-on for [[Google Docs]].<ref name=VB19/>
Grammarly was founded by Max Lytvyn, Alex Shevchenko, and Dmytro Lider,<ref name=":1" /> the creators of My Dropbox, an app that checks essays for plagiarism.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Как двое киевлян создали сервис проверки английского правописания стоимостью $100 млн |url=https://escadra.com.ua/kak-dvoe-kievlyan-sozdali-servis-proverki-anglijskogo-pravopisaniya-stoimostyu-100-mln.html |access-date=February 19, 2022 |website=Escadra Recruitment Agency |language=Russian}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Rahman |first=Tameem |date=2020-06-05 |title=How Grammarly Grew to 7 Million Daily Users |url=https://bettermarketing.pub/how-grammarly-grew-to-7-million-daily-users-4fcd5aef6765 |access-date=February 19, 2022 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref> Grammarly was initially designed as an educational app to help university students improve their English skills. It was later offered to the end customers who use English in everyday life.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />


In 2017, Grammarly raised $110 million in its first funding round.<ref name=TC17>{{cite news |last=Roof |first=Katie |date=May 8, 2017 |title=Grammarly raises $110 million for a better spell check |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/grammarly-raises-110-million-for-a-better-spell-check/?guccounter=1 |work=TechCrunch |access-date=September 20, 2024}}</ref>
In early 2018, a security researcher at [[Google]] discovered a [[Vulnerability (computing)|vulnerability]] in Grammarly's browser extension [[beta version]], which exposed authentication tokens to websites and potentially allowed them to access the users' documents and other data.<ref name="Chrome Bug Report">{{cite web |last=Ormandy |first=Tavis |date=February 2, 2018 |title=Issue 1527: Grammarly: auth tokens are accessible to all websites |url=https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1527 |access-date=2021-08-01 |department=project-zero |publisher=Google}}</ref> Within a few hours, the company released a [[hotfix]] and reported that it found no evidence of compromised user data.<ref name="Gizmodo on Bug">{{cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/grammarly-bug-let-snoops-read-everything-you-wrote-onli-1822740378|title=Grammarly Bug Let Snoops Read What You Wrote, Typos and All (Updated)|last=Couts|first=Andrew|date=2018-02-05|website=Gizmodo|access-date=2021-08-01|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113040048/https://gizmodo.com/grammarly-bug-let-snoops-read-everything-you-wrote-onli-1822740378|archive-date=2021-01-13}}</ref> Later in December, Grammarly launched a [[bug bounty program]] on [[HackerOne]], offering a {{US$}}100,000 reward to the first [[white hat hacker]] to access a specific document on the company's server.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grammarly - Bug Bounty Program |url=https://hackerone.com/grammarly |publisher=HackerOne |date=March 2022}}</ref>


In 2019, Grammarly added a tone detector to its writing assistant. This tool uses set rules and machine-learning to help users gauge the character of their writing and tailor it to a particular audience.<ref name=TechCrunch19>{{cite news |last=Lardinois |first=Frederic |date=September 24, 2019 |title=Grammarly gets a tone detectorto keep you out of email trouble |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/24/grammarly-gets-a-tone-detector-to-keep-you-out-of-email-trouble/ |work=TechCrunch |access-date=September 20, 2024}}</ref><ref name=VentureBeat19>{{cite news |last=Wiggers |first=Kyle |date=September 24, 2019 |title=Grammarly uses AI to detect the tone and tenor of your writing |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/grammarly-uses-ai-to-detect-the-tone-and-tenor-of-your-writing/ |work=TechCrunch |access-date=September 20, 2024}}</ref> That same year, the company held a second funding round, raising $90 million.<ref name=VB19/> In 2020, Grammarly made its first investment in an outside company, participating in a $10 million funding round for Docugami, a company working on AI-driven document generation.<ref name=GW20>{{cite news |last=Bishop |first=Todd |date=May 13, 2020 |title=Grammarly makes first investment, taking stake in Seattle document engineering startup Docugami |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2020/grammarly-makes-first-investment-taking-stake-seattle-document-engineering-startup-docugami/ |work=GeekWire |access-date=September 20, 2024}}</ref> In 2021, Grammarly raised another $200 million, at a total valuation of $13 billion, via its third funding round.<ref name=Reuters21>{{cite news |last=Podder |first=Sohini |date=November 17, 2021 |title=Grammarly raises fresh funds at $13 billion valuation |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/world/americas/grammarly-raises-fresh-funds-at-13-billion-valuation-idUSKBN2I3068/ |work=Reuters |access-date=September 23, 2024}}</ref> By this point, Grammarly had approximately 30 million users.<ref name=VB21>{{cite news |last=Wiggers |first=Kyle |date=November 17, 2021 |title=Grammarly raises $200M to expand its AI-powered writing suggestions platform |url=https://venturebeat.com/uncategorized/grammarly-ai-writing-suggestions-startup-raises-200m-at-13b-valuation/ |work=VentureBeat |access-date=September 28, 2024}}</ref>
Grammarly effectively severed all business relations with users in [[Russia]] and [[Belarus]] in response to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]]. The company also announced that it would donate the net revenue earned in Russia and Belarus since 2014 to Ukraine. It also provided free access to Ukrainian media, which reported on the war in English.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MacLellan |first=Lila |title=Ukrainian-founded Grammarly is donating all the money it made in Russia since 2014 |url=https://qz.com/work/2138072/the-tech-company-grammarly-is-donating-its-russian-profits-to-ukraine/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Quartz |date=March 5, 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Renbarger |first=Madeline |title='We feel frustrated': Startup CEOs with teams in Ukraine struggle to help their employees in any way they can |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/us-tech-startups-help-employees-in-ukraine-grammarly-2022-3 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Business Insider}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://qz.com/work/2138072/the-tech-company-grammarly-is-donating-its-russian-profits-to-ukraine |title=Ukrainian-founded Grammarly is donating all the money it made in Russia since 2014 |author=Lila MacLellan |date=March 4, 2022 |publisher=Quartz |access-date=December 9, 2022}}</ref>

[[File:Logo de grammarly.png|thumb|Former Logo]]
Following the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]], Grammarly ceased all business operations in [[Russia]] and [[Belarus]]. The company also announced that it would donate all the net revenue it had earned in Russia and Belarus since 2014, about $5 million, to Ukrainian humanitarian groups.<ref name="QZ22">{{cite web |author=Lila MacLellan |date=March 4, 2022 |title=Ukrainian-founded Grammarly is donating all the money it made in Russia since 2014 |url=https://qz.com/work/2138072/the-tech-company-grammarly-is-donating-its-russian-profits-to-ukraine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213041200/https://qz.com/work/2138072/the-tech-company-grammarly-is-donating-its-russian-profits-to-ukraine |archive-date=February 13, 2023 |access-date=December 9, 2022 |publisher=Quartz}}</ref><ref name="BizInsider22">{{Cite web |last=Renbarger |first=Madeline |title='We feel frustrated': Startup CEOs with teams in Ukraine struggle to help their employees in any way they can |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/us-tech-startups-help-employees-in-ukraine-grammarly-2022-3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104171904/https://www.businessinsider.com/us-tech-startups-help-employees-in-ukraine-grammarly-2022-3 |archive-date=January 4, 2023 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Business Insider}}</ref> Additionally, the company paid the salaries of Ukrainians who left their jobs at Grammarly to join the nation's army<ref name="Bloomberg22">{{cite news |last=Anand |first=Priya |date=March 21, 2022 |title=Grammarly Continues to Pay Staffers Who Joined Ukrainian Army |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-21/grammarly-continues-to-pay-staffers-who-joined-ukrainian-army |access-date=October 29, 2024 |work=Bloomberg}}</ref> and made its product free for Ukrainian journalists publishing news about the war in English.<ref name="QZ22" />
In April 2023, Grammarly launched a [[Beta stage|beta-stage]] product using [[generative AI]] called Grammarly GO, built on the [[GPT-3]] [[Large language model|large language models]].<ref>{{Cite web |author1=Hamish Hector |date=2023-03-09 |title=Grammarly's ChatGPT upgrade won't just improve your writing, it'll do it for you |url=https://www.techradar.com/news/grammarlys-chatgpt-upgrade-wont-just-improve-your-writing-itll-do-it-for-you |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=TechRadar |language=en}}</ref> The software can generate and re-write content based on prompts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Akuchie |first=Michael |date=2023-03-16 |title=GrammarlyGo: Everything You Need To Know About The AI Writing Assistant |url=https://screenrant.com/grammarly-go-ai-writing-assistant-features-explained/ |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}}</ref>

In April 2023, Grammarly launched a product using [[generative AI]] built on the [[GPT-3]] [[Large language model|large language models]].<ref>{{Cite web |author1=Hamish Hector |date=2023-03-09 |title=Grammarly's ChatGPT upgrade won't just improve your writing, it'll do it for you |url=https://www.techradar.com/news/grammarlys-chatgpt-upgrade-wont-just-improve-your-writing-itll-do-it-for-you |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=TechRadar |language=en |archive-date=May 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507144211/https://www.techradar.com/news/grammarlys-chatgpt-upgrade-wont-just-improve-your-writing-itll-do-it-for-you |url-status=live }}</ref> The software can generate and rewrite content based on prompts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Akuchie |first=Michael |date=2023-03-16 |title=GrammarlyGo: Everything You Need To Know About The AI Writing Assistant |url=https://screenrant.com/grammarly-go-ai-writing-assistant-features-explained/ |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=May 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507144211/https://screenrant.com/grammarly-go-ai-writing-assistant-features-explained/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It can also generate topic ideas and outlines for written content such as blog posts and academic essays.<ref name=CNET24>{{cite news |last=Chedraoui |first=Katelyni |date=June 11, 2024 |title=Did Apple Intelligence's 'Rewrite' Tool Just Kill Grammarly? |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/did-apple-intelligences-rewrite-tool-just-kill-grammarly/ |work=CNET |access-date=September 23, 2024}}</ref> It has been trained on an anonymized library of business writing and is capable of suggesting clarifying edits and additions to work communications such as emails and chat messages.<ref name=FastCo24A>{{cite news |last=Melendez |first=Steven |date=March 26, 2024 |title=Grammarly's AI can now offer suggestions to make your work messages clearer |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91068635/grammarly-ai-business-writing |agency=Reuters |access-date=September 23, 2024}}</ref> In September 2024, Grammarly announced the release of its Authorship tool, which attempts to identify the original source of a passage of text. It then designates the passage as written by the text's author, lifted from another source, or generated by AI.<ref name=ZDNet24>{{cite news |last=Whitney |first=Lance |date=August 15, 2024 |title=Grammarly to roll out a new AI content detector tool. Here's how it works |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/grammarly-to-roll-out-a-new-ai-content-detector-tool-heres-how-it-works/ |work=ZDNet |access-date=October 8, 2024}}</ref><ref name=IncMag24>{{cite news |last=Contreras |first=Brian |date=August 14, 2024 |title=This New Grammarly Tool Aims to Tell If AI Wrote a Document |url=https://www.inc.com/brian-contreras/this-new-grammarly-tool-aims-to-tell-if-ai-wrote-a-document.html |work=Inc. Magazine |access-date=October 8, 2024}}</ref> It's not clear to what extent such tools work.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Coffey |first1=Lauren |title=Professors Cautious of Tools to Detect AI-Generated Writing |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/02/09/professors-proceed-caution-using-ai |website=Inside Higher Ed |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Fowler |first=Geoffrey A. |date=April 3, 2023 |title=We tested a new ChatGPT-detector for teachers. It flagged an innocent student. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/01/chatgpt-cheating-detection-turnitin/ |url-access=registration |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>

In July 2024, Grammarly donated approximately $500,000 to help rebuild [[Okhmatdyt]] children's hospital after the building was damaged by a Russian missile strike.<ref name="OnlineUA">{{cite news |last=Lytovchenko |first=Viktoria |date=July 10, 2024 |title=UAH 300 million was raised for "Okhmatdyt" hospital's reconstruction |url=https://news.online.ua/en/over-uah-300-million-raised-for-okhmatdyt-hospitals-reconstruction-881706/ |access-date=October 29, 2024 |work=Online.UA}}</ref><ref name="UKFrontlines24">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=July 10, 2024 |title=In less than two days: UAH 300 million raised to rebuild Okhmatdyt |url=https://ukrainefrontlines.com/news/ukraine/in-less-than-two-days-uah-300-million-raised-to-rebuild-okhmatdyt/ |access-date=October 29, 2024 |work=Ukraine Frontlines}}</ref>

==Vulnerabilities==
In early 2018, [[Tavis Ormandy]], a security researcher at [[Google]] who was formerly part of Google's [[Project Zero (Google)|Project Zero]] team,<ref name="wired">{{cite web |last=Greenberg |first=Andy |date=15 July 2014 |title=Meet 'Project Zero,' Google's Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/07/google-project-zero/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105134801/http://www.wired.com/2014/07/google-project-zero/ |archive-date=5 January 2015 |accessdate=4 January 2015 |publisher=[[Wired.com]]}}</ref> discovered a severe [[Vulnerability (computing)|vulnerability]] in Grammarly's browser extension, which exposed authentication tokens to websites and potentially allowed them to access the users' documents and other data.<ref name="Chrome Bug Report">{{cite web |last=Ormandy |first=Tavis |date=February 2, 2018 |title=Issue 1527: Grammarly: auth tokens are accessible to all websites |url=https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1527 |access-date=2021-08-01 |department=project-zero |publisher=Google |archive-date=January 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104171900/https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1527 |url-status=live }}</ref> A few hours later, the company released a [[hotfix]] and reported that it found no evidence of compromised user data.<ref name="Gizmodo on Bug">{{cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/grammarly-bug-let-snoops-read-everything-you-wrote-onli-1822740378|title=Grammarly Bug Let Snoops Read What You Wrote, Typos and All (Updated)|last=Couts|first=Andrew|date=2018-02-05|website=Gizmodo|access-date=2021-08-01|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113040048/https://gizmodo.com/grammarly-bug-let-snoops-read-everything-you-wrote-onli-1822740378|archive-date=2021-01-13}}</ref> Later in December, Grammarly launched a [[bug bounty program]] on [[HackerOne]], offering a {{US$}}100,000 reward to the first [[white hat hacker]] to access a specific document on the company's server.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grammarly - Bug Bounty Program |url=https://hackerone.com/grammarly |publisher=HackerOne |date=March 2022 |access-date=July 22, 2022 |archive-date=March 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315061128/https://hackerone.com/grammarly |url-status=live }}</ref>


== Reception ==
== Reception ==
Reviewers have praised Grammarly for its ease of use and helpful suggestions, considering it worthwhile despite its relatively high price and lack of offline functionality.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Moore|first=Ben|date=July 6, 2020|title=Grammarly Review: A slick writing assistant for all your documents|url=https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/grammarly|website=PCMag}}</ref> Josh Steimle of ''[[Forbes]]'' lauded it in 2013, saying that "It's an online {{Sic|services}} that quickly and easily makes your writing better and makes you sound like a pro, or at least helps you avoid looking like a fool."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Steimle |first=Josh |date=19 November 2013 |title=Top 5 Writing Tips For Entrepreneurs |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshsteimle/2013/11/19/top-5-writing-tips-for-entrepreneurs/ |access-date=22 November 2022 |website=[[Forbes]]}}</ref> Conversely, some users have criticized Grammarly for incorrect suggestions, ignorance of tone and context, and reduction of writers' freedom of expression.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mayne|first=Dorothy|date=January 26, 2021|title=Revisiting Grammarly: An Imperfect Tool for Final Editing|url=https://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/revisiting-grammarly/comment-page-1/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220219040626/https://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/revisiting-grammarly/comment-page-1/|archive-date=February 19, 2022|access-date=February 19, 2022|website=another word}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Brogan|first=Jacob|date=February 7, 2018|title=Grammarly Fixed a Security Vulnerability, but It Still Can't Fix Our Writing|url=https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/grammarly-wont-make-your-writing-better.html|website=Slate Magazine}}</ref>
Reviewers have praised Grammarly for its ease of use and helpful suggestions, considering it worthwhile despite its relatively high price and lack of offline functionality.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Moore|first=Ben|date=July 6, 2020|title=Grammarly Review: A slick writing assistant for all your documents|url=https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/grammarly|website=PCMag|access-date=May 27, 2021|archive-date=April 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410230836/https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/grammarly|url-status=live}}</ref> Conversely, some users have criticized Grammarly for incorrect suggestions, ignorance of tone and context, and reduction of writers' freedom of expression.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mayne|first=Dorothy|date=January 26, 2021|title=Revisiting Grammarly: An Imperfect Tool for Final Editing|url=https://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/revisiting-grammarly/comment-page-1/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220219040626/https://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/revisiting-grammarly/comment-page-1/|archive-date=February 19, 2022|access-date=February 19, 2022|website=another word}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Brogan|first=Jacob|date=February 7, 2018|title=Grammarly Fixed a Security Vulnerability, but It Still Can't Fix Our Writing|url=https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/grammarly-wont-make-your-writing-better.html|website=Slate Magazine|access-date=December 29, 2021|archive-date=December 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215093147/https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/grammarly-wont-make-your-writing-better.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The result of using Grammarly has occasionally been accused of being AI-generated by detection engines such as [[Turnitin]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Young |first=Jeffrey R. |date=4 April 2024 |title=What happened after this college student's paper was falsely flagged for AI use after using Grammarly |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91074029/can-using-grammarly-set-off-ai-detection-software |work=[[Fast Company]] |access-date=April 25, 2024 |archive-date=April 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240425171038/https://www.fastcompany.com/91074029/can-using-grammarly-set-off-ai-detection-software |url-status=live }}</ref> Schools are struggling to develop rules about its use that are consistent and fair, with some teachers recommending Grammarly to all of their students and others rejecting it.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Menezes |first=Damita |date=2024-03-04 |title=Student fights academic probation for using Grammarly |url=https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/4506271-student-fights-ai-cheating-allegations-for-using-grammarly/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=The Hill |language=en-US |archive-date=April 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240425171910/https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/4506271-student-fights-ai-cheating-allegations-for-using-grammarly/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tang |first=William |title=She used Grammarly to proofread her paper. Now she's accused of 'unintentionally cheating.' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/04/17/ai-students-cheating-plagiarism-grammarly/73223779007/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US |archive-date=April 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240425171910/https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/04/17/ai-students-cheating-plagiarism-grammarly/73223779007/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Grammarly Inc.==
{{Infobox company
| name = Grammarly Inc.
| industry = Software, Artificial intelligence
| founded = 2009<ref name=KyivPost18>{{cite news |last=Krasnikov |first=Denys |date=July 6, 2018 |title=Grammarly opens new Kyiv office as demand rises for help with English |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7405 |work=Kyiv Post |access-date=September 19, 2024}}</ref>
| founders = Alex Shevchenko, Max Lytvyn, and Dmytro Lider<ref name=KyivPost18/>
| hq_location = [[San Francisco|San Francisco, CA]]<ref name="QZ22"/>
| key_people = Rahul Roy-Chowdhury (CEO)<ref name=TimesofIndia23>{{cite news |last=Duttagupta |first=Ishani |date=March 22, 2023 |title=Indian-American Rahul Ray-Chowdhury named CEO of Grammarly |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/indian-american-rahul-roy-chowdhury-named-ceo-of-grammarly/articleshow/98891849.cms |work=Times of India |access-date=September 30, 2024}}</ref>
| num_employees =
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Grammarly Inc., the privately held company<ref name=Axios19>{{cite news |last1=Waddell |first1=Kaveh |last2=Fischer |first2=Sara |date=October 10, 2019 |title=Grammarly raises $90 million and says it's now a "unicorn" |url=https://www.axios.com/2019/10/10/grammarly-90-million-raise-enterprise-unicorn |work=Axios |access-date=December 9, 2024}}</ref> that develops Grammarly, is headquartered in [[San Francisco]].<ref name=Bloomberg23>{{cite news |last=Li |first=Diana |date=May 17, 2024 |title=Grammarly Wants to Expand Its AI From the Classroom to the Office |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-17/grammarly-aims-to-expand-its-ai-from-the-classroom-to-the-office |quote=Grammarly Inc., a software company known for its writing assistant, is expanding its artificial intelligence offerings in the workplace... 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 to a corporate communications and workflow tool. |work=Bloomberg |access-date=December 2, 2024}}</ref> It has additional offices in [[Kyiv]], [[New York City|New York]], and [[Vancouver]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=AI-powered writing assistant Grammarly opens new office in downtown Vancouver {{!}} Venture|url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/grammarly-vancouver-office|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914010852/https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/grammarly-vancouver-office|archive-date=2019-09-14|access-date=2019-11-19|website=dailyhive.com|language=en}}</ref> Grammarly Inc. is led by Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, who became the company's CEO in 2023.<ref name=TimesofIndia23>{{cite news |last=Duttagupta |first=Ishani |date=March 22, 2023 |title=Indian-American Rahul Ray-Chowdhury named CEO of Grammarly |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/indian-american-rahul-roy-chowdhury-named-ceo-of-grammarly/articleshow/98891849.cms |work=Times of India |access-date=September 30, 2024}}</ref>
==See also==
==See also==
*{{section link|Google Docs|History}}
*{{section link|Google Docs|History}}

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Grammarly
Original author(s)Alex Shevchenko, Max Lytvyn, and Dmytro Lider[1][2]
Developer(s)Grammarly Inc.
Initial releaseJuly 1, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-07-01)[3]
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, various web browsers
Available in
TypeOnline text editor, browser extension, and mobile app with grammar checker, spell checker, and plagiarism detector
LicenseProprietary software
Websitegrammarly.com

Grammarly is an English language writing assistant software tool. It reviews the spelling, grammar, and tone of a piece of writing as well as identifying possible instances of plagiarism. It can also suggest style and tonal recommendations to users and produce writing from prompts with its generative AI capabilities.

Grammarly was developed in Ukraine and launched in 2009 by Alex Shevchenko [uk], Max Lytvyn [uk], and Dmytro Lider. It is available as a standalone application; a browser extension for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox; and as an add-on for Google Docs.

Grammarly is developed by Grammarly Inc., which is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Kyiv, New York, and Vancouver.

History

Grammarly was founded in 2009 by Max Lytvyn, Alex Shevchenko, and Dmytro Lider.[4] The company initially offered a subscription-based product intended to help students improve their grammar and spelling.[5] That product was subsequently developed into a writing assistant that checks the grammar, spelling, and tone of a piece of writing.[5][6][7]

By 2015, Grammarly had one million active daily users.[8] That same year, it began offering its flagship product via a freemium model that allowed all users access to the product's basic capabilities while placing more sophisticated features like style recommendations and plagiarism detection behind a paywall.[9][10] It also launched a browser extension for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, as well as an add-on for Google Docs.[10]

In 2017, Grammarly raised $110 million in its first funding round.[11]

In 2019, Grammarly added a tone detector to its writing assistant. This tool uses set rules and machine-learning to help users gauge the character of their writing and tailor it to a particular audience.[12][13] That same year, the company held a second funding round, raising $90 million.[10] In 2020, Grammarly made its first investment in an outside company, participating in a $10 million funding round for Docugami, a company working on AI-driven document generation.[14] In 2021, Grammarly raised another $200 million, at a total valuation of $13 billion, via its third funding round.[15] By this point, Grammarly had approximately 30 million users.[16]

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Grammarly ceased all business operations in Russia and Belarus. The company also announced that it would donate all the net revenue it had earned in Russia and Belarus since 2014, about $5 million, to Ukrainian humanitarian groups.[17][18] Additionally, the company paid the salaries of Ukrainians who left their jobs at Grammarly to join the nation's army[19] and made its product free for Ukrainian journalists publishing news about the war in English.[17]

In April 2023, Grammarly launched a product using generative AI built on the GPT-3 large language models.[20] The software can generate and rewrite content based on prompts.[21] It can also generate topic ideas and outlines for written content such as blog posts and academic essays.[22] It has been trained on an anonymized library of business writing and is capable of suggesting clarifying edits and additions to work communications such as emails and chat messages.[23] In September 2024, Grammarly announced the release of its Authorship tool, which attempts to identify the original source of a passage of text. It then designates the passage as written by the text's author, lifted from another source, or generated by AI.[24][25] It's not clear to what extent such tools work.[26][27]

In July 2024, Grammarly donated approximately $500,000 to help rebuild Okhmatdyt children's hospital after the building was damaged by a Russian missile strike.[28][29]

Vulnerabilities

In early 2018, Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher at Google who was formerly part of Google's Project Zero team,[30] discovered a severe vulnerability in Grammarly's browser extension, which exposed authentication tokens to websites and potentially allowed them to access the users' documents and other data.[31] A few hours later, the company released a hotfix and reported that it found no evidence of compromised user data.[32] Later in December, Grammarly launched a bug bounty program on HackerOne, offering a US$100,000 reward to the first white hat hacker to access a specific document on the company's server.[33]

Reception

Reviewers have praised Grammarly for its ease of use and helpful suggestions, considering it worthwhile despite its relatively high price and lack of offline functionality.[34] Conversely, some users have criticized Grammarly for incorrect suggestions, ignorance of tone and context, and reduction of writers' freedom of expression.[35][36]

The result of using Grammarly has occasionally been accused of being AI-generated by detection engines such as Turnitin.[37] Schools are struggling to develop rules about its use that are consistent and fair, with some teachers recommending Grammarly to all of their students and others rejecting it.[38][39]

Grammarly Inc.

Grammarly Inc.
IndustrySoftware, Artificial intelligence
Founded2009[8]
FoundersAlex Shevchenko, Max Lytvyn, and Dmytro Lider[8]
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA[17]
Key people
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury (CEO)[40]

Grammarly Inc., the privately held company[41] that develops Grammarly, is headquartered in San Francisco.[42] It has additional offices in Kyiv, New York, and Vancouver.[43] Grammarly Inc. is led by Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, who became the company's CEO in 2023.[40]

See also

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