Grammarly acquires Coda
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Grammarly acquires Coda
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Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#2Seems interesting
For Coda this makes sense to kind of kickstart/boost their AI efforts.
But not immediately clear to me why Grammarly is interested in building their own doc builder tool?
Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#3Grammarly has been having an identity crisis ever since LLMs made grammar checking accessible to every company at a fraction of the cost. ChatGPT is killing a lot of companies and grammarly was the first collateral.
This acquisition is concerning because Grammarly is well known for its bad privacy policy and how it's essentially a keylogger. Now that it has access to probably thousands of companies data hosted on Coda is a huge concern.
But it's high time Grammarly evolves itself into some other product or die trying.
Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#4Seems interesting For Coda this makes sense to kind of kickstart/boost their AI efforts. But not immediately clear to me why Grammarly is interested in building their own doc builder tool?
Looks like a "let's spend our cash/equity on something good while we still exist" kind of situation.
Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#5> And we also discussed the leadership structure, and agreed that I would lead the joint company as CEO.
Pretty interesting twist. It’s almost as if Coda acquired Grammarly.
Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#6> And we also discussed the leadership structure, and agreed that I would lead the joint company as CEO. Pretty interesting twist. It’s almost as if Coda acquired Grammarly.
Two failing companies joining forces to fail together, a tale as old as time.
Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#7This sounds like a VC forced marriage. I'm like 90% sure that Coda and Grammarly are both under the same VC umbrella.
Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#8In the PR, they use some of the ambiguity around the term AI to claim it's AI native. It isn't LLM native, but they indeed were using things that encompass AI.
If anyone else thought of Panic, here's what happened with that Coda: https://panic.com/coda/
Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#9This sounds like a VC forced marriage. I'm like 90% sure that Coda and Grammarly are both under the same VC umbrella.
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Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#10Grammarly has been having an identity crisis ever since LLMs made grammar checking accessible to every company at a fraction of the cost. ChatGPT is killing a lot of companies and grammarly was the first collateral. This acquisition is concerning because Grammarly is well known for its bad privacy policy and how it's essentially a keylogger. Now that it has access to probably thousands of companies data hosted on Cod…
I am perplexed by Grammarly getting progressively worse as time goes by. I am seriously considering spending a weekend or two on writing myself a small LLM powered clone. I think a browser extension for Gmail should be relatively easy. I am not sure about Word (desktop) and Google Docs though.