Grammarly built the first agent, the original agent. What Grammarly does is it works in about 500,000 or so different applications. Every web app, desktop app, mobile app that you use, everything from Slack to Gmail to Salesforce, Grammarly can read your screen, annotate it in a way that is unobtrusive to anything else you're doing, and it can make changes on your behalf anywhere.
“they thought about the whole thing differently.”
they thought about the whole thing differently. But the the view is that Grammarly built the the first agent, the the original, agent. And, you know, if you think about it that way, what Grammarly does is it works in about 500,000 or so different applications. So every, web app, desktop app, mobile app that you use, everything from Slack to Gmail to Salesforce, to, your performance review app to anything, Grammarly can read your screen, annotate it in a way that is unobtrusive to to anything else you're doing or the application is doing, and it can make changes on your behalf anywhere,
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Bold claim that Grammarly was 'the first agent' reframes a familiar grammar tool as a pioneering AI platform. The massive scale (500k applications) and technical capabilities described challenge how people think about what Grammarly actually is versus what they thought it was.
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The horizontal AI players roughly break into three buckets: assist, chat, and do. If you use ChatGPT a dozen times in a day, you'd be a pretty heavy user. There's another bucket I call 'Do' - those are all the people building agents and AI that goes off and does things in a headless way.
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