With this update, users can now access grammar checks, spelling corrections, and paragraph-level suggestions not just in English but also in the new languages. These suggestions cover tone, style, and overall readability, aiming to make multilingual writing smoother and more natural.

Another feature is Grammarly’s translation tool, which allows users to translate text instantly without leaving their workspace. The feature supports translations across 19 languages, including Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and Ukrainian. 

A maximum of 4,000 characters can be translated at once, and for short phrases of under 10 words, Grammarly may provide multiple translation options.

The company says this tool will work across Grammarly for Windows, Mac, Chrome, and even within the Figma plugin. However, access depends on whether generative features are enabled. Business, Enterprise, and Education account holders will need their admins to turn on generative AI before the translation function becomes available.

Explaining the new focus on multilingual tools, Ailian Gan, director of Product Management at Grammarly, said: “Our customers have been asking for multilingual support, and we’re meeting them where they are, not just in the 500,000 apps and websites where Grammarly already works, but also in the languages that they think, learn, and communicate in daily.”

Grammarly piloted the multilingual features with one million users before today’s public launch, reporting positive results but withholding specific figures. The company, which announced in May that it has 40 million daily active users, obviously sees this expansion as a way to strengthen its place in the productivity market.

This release follows a string of product upgrades, including redesigned document tools and new AI-powered features rolled out last month. Grammarly has confirmed that multilingual support will also extend to these AI tools in the near future.

The upgrade follows its acquisition of productivity startup Coda last year, which now powers the new block-style interface.

The redesigned workspace allows users to build documents with tables, lists, headers, and rich formatting options. It also integrates a sidebar assistant that can answer questions, summarise content, and suggest improvements. 

Beyond these, Grammarly has embedded a collection of specialised agents that tackle specific writing challenges.

Among the tools are:

• AI Grader, which reviews work against academic rubrics and available course materials, offering feedback and estimated grades.
• Citation Finder, which locates credible sources and generates citations in multiple styles.
• Reader Reactions, which predicts how different audiences such as professors, clients, or managers might interpret a piece of writing.
• Paraphraser, which adjusts tone and style to match a target audience.
• Plagiarism Checker and AI Detector, both designed to flag unoriginal work and identify machine-generated text.
• Expert Review, which provides domain-specific guidance.

Luke Behnke, Grammarly’s vice president of Enterprise Product, addressed the controversy around detecting AI-written text. “The goal here is not to provide an enforcement mechanism for teachers. If teachers want to enforce policies, they should use our authorship tool. But this [AI detector tool] is about providing a window to students into what could be AI-generated text in their writing before they submit,” he said.

The company frames the update as part of a wider effort to balance creation and accountability. While it now offers tools that can help students write with AI, it also equips them to identify when their work may lean too heavily on machine input. 

Grammarly says this approach reflects what it calls a “moral imperative” to prepare students for the realities of the workplace.

The redesign comes after a period of aggressive expansion. In May, Grammarly secured $1 billion in funding from General Catalyst to drive acquisitions and grow its enterprise reach. More recently, it acquired Superhuman, an AI-powered email client, noting plans to extend its influence into communication workflows.

With more than 40 million active users and integrations across Google Docs, Outlook, Slack, and other platforms, Grammarly is positioning itself as a full productivity suite. 

Its latest changes set it up to compete directly with platforms like Notion, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Workspace Duet, all of which are racing to embed smart writing assistants into everyday workflows.

The deal reveals Grammarly’s intent to stake its claim in enterprise productivity, placing it in direct competition with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

Per Reuters, the financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. However, Superhuman was last valued at $825 million in 2021 and currently generates an estimated $35 million annually. 

With over $110 million in venture funding behind it, from names like Andreessen Horowitz and IVP, Superhuman had built a reputation for exclusivity and speed, with features that reportedly helped users send and respond to 72% more emails per hour.

Grammarly, founded in 2005, has gone beyond a grammar tool. After raising $1 billion in non-dilutive funding from General Catalyst in May 2025, the company is transforming into a full-fledged productivity platform. 

The acquisition of Coda in late 2024 laid the foundation for AI-powered collaboration, and Superhuman now brings email into the mix.

This acquisition also reveals an organisational change. Rahul Vohra, Superhuman’s CEO, will now join Grammarly’s leadership team, bringing along over 100 Superhuman employees. Yet Superhuman won’t be absorbed entirely. “The Superhuman product, team, and brand will continue,” said Grammarly CEO Shashir Mehrotra. 

“It’s a very well-used product by tens of thousands of people, and we want to see them continue to make progress.”

The two companies have an aligned vision of integrating Grammarly’s growing suite of productivity agents into Superhuman. These AI-powered tools are designed to help users summarise threads, generate replies, extract insights from documents, and sync with calendars, all from within the email client.

Vohra described the deal as a catalyst for growth: “This gives us significantly greater resources and allows us to invest more deeply in AI, calendars, tasks, and collaboration.”

With this, Grammarly is placing itself at the centre of a new development where AI assistants that function seamlessly across workflows, including email, documents, calendars, and beyond. 

Superhuman will be a testbed for this integration, potentially redefining what a modern email platform can do.

Nonetheless, the email space has become very competitive, with Google’s Gemini-infused Gmail and Microsoft’s Copilot for Outlook evolving fast. Startups like Shortwave and Missive are also moving speedily, embedding smart features directly into inboxes.

But Mehrotra is undeterred. “Email continues to be the dominant communication tool for the world. Professionals spend something like three hours a day in their inboxes. It’s by far the most used work app, foundational to any productivity suite,” he said.

What began as a premium, invite-only service targeting high-performance professionals now finds itself backed by one of the most widely used writing tools on the planet.

Grammarly, with over 40 million daily users and $700 million in annual revenue, is no longer content playing in the margins.

This arrangement lets Grammarly scale aggressively without compromising its valuation or control.

The investment comes from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), a fund structured specifically for late-stage startups that already have stable revenue. CVF doesn’t behave like a typical venture capital arm, it doesn’t buy equity. 

It issues non-dilutive capital, secured against a company’s predictable income streams. For Grammarly, that’s an edge as it scales through the post-ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) market.

Grammarly, founded 14 years ago, generates more than $700 million annually and claims 40 million daily users. But the firm is changing direction, beyond grammar checks, toward a full-scale AI productivity suite. 

The December 2024 acquisition of Coda, a productivity startup, marked a clear pivot. Shishir Mehrotra, Coda’s former CEO, now leads Grammarly’s next phase.

“Grammarly is evolving into an AI-powered productivity company,” Mehrotra said after the acquisition. The company is integrating third-party tools and moving into enterprise workflows, a strategy that demands aggressive go-to-market expansion and targeted acquisitions, both areas the new funding will support.

Again, the deal does not affect Grammarly’s valuation. Although it hit a $13 billion valuation during the height of the zero-interest boom in 2021, its current market value remains under wraps. An insider told us that today’s valuation is “significantly lower,” but didn’t offer figures. 

Regardless, the nondilutive nature of the CVF deal ensures Grammarly doesn’t have to renegotiate that number down.

General Catalyst, through CVF, has backed close to 50 firms, including insurtech startup Lemonade and telehealth company Ro. The fund operates independently from the firm’s recent $8 billion raise and has its own limited partners. 

In a past interview, CVF co-head Pranav Singhvi said the model is designed for “companies that are ready to grow, not experiment.”

The absence of equity transfer in the Grammarly deal is deliberate. “It’s capital that’s deeply aligned with business growth,” Singhvi explained.

Per TechCrunch, Grammarly didn’t respond to requests for comment on future IPO plans, though Mehrotra has hinted at it before. There’s no timeline yet, but if the firm continues scaling at this pace, a public offering could follow sooner rather than later.

A study by Adobe found that 70% of creative professionals worry that AI could make their jobs obsolete while 63% also believe it can enhance their creativity.

With the rise of AI and an abundance of free tech tools on the internet, processes that would otherwise be complicated have become immensely simplified.

Research, ideation, analytics, reporting, and even technical creation processes are now as easy as finding the right tools, imputing the right prompts, and getting the results in a matter of seconds.

As much as the ease that comes with the rise of these tech tools is very welcome, it raises the question, ‘How do we avoid laxity and laziness while depending on these tools for increased efficiency?’

I have observed that AI-powered tools can potentially weaken the ability to think critically. While automating routine tasks can save time and increase efficiency, it can also reduce our problem-solving and decision-making skills, thereby hindering our ability to think creatively and independently.

Imagine a team of designers tasked with creating innovative packaging for a new eco-friendly water bottle. They might have previously brainstormed, sketched, and prototyped their ideas by hand, experimenting with different shapes, materials, and functionalities.

This hands-on process would have naturally forced them to consider various constraints, think creatively about solutions, and make decisions based on their understanding of the materials and manufacturing processes.

Now, with sophisticated design software that can automate tasks like generating 3D models, performing stress simulations, and creating realistic renders, it can also subtly shift the team’s approach.

They might rely heavily on pre-existing templates and functionalities instead of pushing their creative boundaries. They could easily fall into the trap of optimising parameters within the software’s limitations rather than challenging those limitations and exploring entirely new avenues.

For example, Amper Music and Jukebox can spark inspiration and help generate initial melodies or harmonies, providing composers with a springboard for their creativity, Autodesk Fusion 360 can optimise designs for strength, manufacturability, and even aesthetics, assisting designers in iterating and refining their ideas faster, AI tools can analyse vast amounts of data to identify target audiences, predict trends, and personalise ad campaigns, boosting the effectiveness of creative marketing efforts, writing assistants like Grammarly and Jasper can suggest word choices, grammar corrections, and even generate basic content outlines, streamlining the writing process and overcoming writer’s block.

Since everyone has access to the same tools and pre-built templates, creative outputs can become formulaic and lack originality.

Some forms of AI-generated art or writing can feel sterile and devoid of nuance and emotional depth that comes from human expression.

On top of that, there is the ethical question of copyright and creative rights as who owns these rights for AI-generated work is unclear and can potentially lead to legal dilemmas.

In the same vein, this technology democratises creative tools and resources, making them accessible to more users regardless of geographical or financial limitations. This gives a better chance for previously untapped talent to emerge in the creative landscape.

We must ensure that while these tools are adopted for their efficiency and ability to produce greater output, they don’t take away or dull our focus on creativity, skill, and critical thinking as professionals.

Instead, these factors, at this point, demand more focus to prove mastery in an industry where everyone has access to the same tools. Creating the right balance is hinged on two things essentially; intentionality, and a human-centered approach to projects.

Automation is not without its pitfalls and limitations, the best approach is to define the creative outcomes first, before employing tech tools to support the process.

This way, you are not stuck with the tool’s limitations, or reliant on artificial intelligence for creative thinking and critical analysis. It helps to set boundaries between automated tasks and those requiring human judgment, reflection, and independent thought. Choose tools that enhance specific aspects of your process, not replace your own vision.

It is important for us to prioritise brainstorming, experimenting, and exploring ideas outside the digital realm. This would fuel improvisation, divergent thinking, and problem-solving skills.

We must not be afraid to push the boundaries of technology, explore its limitations, and find innovative ways to adapt it to our creative vision.

Exposing ourselves to various viewpoints, disciplines, and art forms, will also expand our creative horizon and inspire unconventional solutions.

We must continuously evaluate the outputs generated by tech tools, question their assumptions, and consider alternative solutions informed by our critical thinking.

Understanding that the tools don’t necessarily do the work better but are at our disposal to improve efficiency would guide us in our utilisation of them to accentuate our work processes. The tools are augmenters and collaborators, not replacements for our ingenuity.

In conclusion, the key to cultivating creativity and critical thinking in a tech-driven world is to approach technology with purpose, actively engage in creative exploration, and maintain a critical mindset to ensure tech empowers, rather than hinders, your true creative potential.

In the evolution of the relationship between technology and human creativity, AI should become even more deeply integrated into creative workflows not as a separate tool but as a co-creator instead.

We might see entirely new art forms and modes of creative expression born out of the fusion between human intelligence and AI.

However, regardless of how advanced AI becomes, human imagination, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence will remain the driving forces behind true creativity, and the future lies in harnessing the power of technology while never losing sight of our capacity to dream, connect, and express ourselves.

Oluwole Asalu is a founder, serial entrepreneur, and technology specialist writing from Lagos, Nigeria.