$110 million
That’s how much venture capitalists will pay for a piece of just about anything involving artificial intelligence, whether it’s computers learning to drive or helping people shop for clothing. In this case, the sizable investment is in Grammarly, a San Francisco startup looking to use AI to improve people’s grammar. General Catalyst, a Massachusetts venture firm with offices in Palo Alto, led the round. Grammarly’s software underlines awkward locutions words and phrases in the user’s writing and makes suggestions to improve it them.