Wordtune
{{short description|AI-powered writing companion}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Wordtune
| logo =
| industry = AI
| founded = 2020
| founder = AI21 labs
}}
Wordtune is an AI powered reading and writing companion capable of fixing grammatical errors, understanding context and meaning, suggesting paraphrases or alternative writing tones, and generating written text based on context.{{Cite web |date=2023-01-17 |title=AI21 Labs has created a co-writing bot that can suggest quotes, statistics, provide citations and more |url=https://siliconangle.com/2023/01/17/ai21-labs-created-co-writing-bot-can-suggest-quotes-statistics-provide-citations/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=SiliconANGLE |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2023-03-02 |title=This AI Will Create a 'SparkNotes' Summary of Any Article |url=https://lifehacker.com/this-ai-will-create-a-sparknotes-summary-of-any-artic-1850173701 |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=Lifehacker |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Generative AI: the new tech helping us write, imagine and create |url=https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-724749 |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |date=14 December 2022 |language=en-US}} It is developed by the Israeli AI company AI21 Labs.{{Cite web |last=Morrison |first=Ryan |date=2023-01-17 |title=ChatGPT alternative WordTune Spices can cite its sources |url=https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ai-and-automation/chatgpt-alternative-wordtune-spice |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=Tech Monitor |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Gupta |first=Khushboo |date=2023-01-20 |title=AI21 Labs Proposes A New Method Called 'In-Context RALM' That Can Add Ready-Made External Knowledge Sources To The Existing Language Model |url=https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/01/20/ai21-labs-proposes-a-new-method-called-in-context-ralm-that-can-add-ready-made-external-knowledge-sources-to-the-existing-language-model/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=MarkTechPost |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2023-01-17 |title=AI21 Labs has created a co-writing bot that can suggest quotes, statistics, provide citations and more |url=https://siliconangle.com/2023/01/17/ai21-labs-created-co-writing-bot-can-suggest-quotes-statistics-provide-citations/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=SiliconANGLE |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2023-01-20 |title=Top AI startup news of the week: AI21 Labs, Mad Street Den, aiOla, and more |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/top-ai-startup-news-of-the-week-ai21-labs-mad-street-den-aiola-and-more/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}
History
Wordtune was released in October 2020 by AI21 Labs. It was released just as the company came out of stealth mode.{{Cite web |last=Desk |first=AIT News |date=2020-10-27 |title=AI21 Labs Comes Out of Stealth and Launches First Deep-Tech Writing Assistant, Wordtune |url=https://aithority.com/botsintelligent-assistants/ai21-labs-comes-out-of-stealth-and-launches-first-deep-tech-writing-assistant-wordtune/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=AiThority |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2020-11-02 |title=AI21 Labs rolls out AI-powered writing companion |url=https://www.geektime.com/ai21-labs-launches-writing-add-on/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=Geektime |language=en}} Wordtune can be used as a standalone editor, or added as an extension for the Chrome browser. Users can use the tool to paraphrase text being composed on services like Gmail, Google Docs, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.{{Cite web |last=Walsh |first=Bryan |date=2020-10-27 |title=AI21 Labs' Wordtune is a ghostwriter in the machine |url=https://www.axios.com/2020/10/27/ai21labs-wordtune-artificial-intelligence-writing-assistant |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=Axios |language=en}}
On November 14, 2021, AI21 released Wordtune Read — an AI-powered Chrome extension and standalone app designed to process large amounts of written text from websites, documents, or YouTube videos, and summarize them into short and easily digestible pieces of text.{{Cite web |title=Shashua's AI21 Labs launches tool to help read documents 75% faster |url=https://www.jpost.com/jpost-tech/shashuas-ai21-labs-launches-tool-to-help-read-documents-75-percent-faster-685038 |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |date=16 November 2021 |language=en-US}}
In January 2023, AI21 released Wordtune Spices — a generative-AI toolkit designed to help writers write faster.{{Cite news |last=Mann |first=Yuval |date=2023-01-17 |title=Israeli answer to ChatGPT will spruce up your English writing |language=en |work=Ynetnews |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/ry18bunsi |access-date=2023-03-29}} Wordtune Spices{{Cite web |last=Wrobel |first=Sharon |title=AI21 Labs, co-founded by Amnon Shashua, rolls out AI feature to spice up writing |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/ai21-labs-co-founded-by-amnon-shashua-rolls-out-ai-feature-to-spice-up-writing/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2023-03-13 |title=3 new AI editors to sharpen your sentences |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90863383/3-new-ai-editors-to-sharpen-your-sentences}} can generate sentences or whole paragraphs in tune with whatever the user is writing.{{Cite web |last=Wiggers |first=Kyle |date=2023-01-17 |title=AI21 Labs intros an AI writing assistant that cites its sources |url=https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/ai21-labs-intros-an-ai-writing-assistant-that-cites-its-sources/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Wrobel |first=Sharon |title=AI21 Labs, co-founded by Amnon Shashua, rolls out AI feature to spice up writing |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/ai21-labs-co-founded-by-amnon-shashua-rolls-out-ai-feature-to-spice-up-writing/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Chen |first=Brian X. |date=2023-02-01 |title=A.I. Bots Can't Report This Column. But They Can Improve It. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/technology/personaltech/chatgpt-ai-bots-editing.html |access-date=2023-03-29 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |last=Lawson |first=Loraine |date=2023-01-24 |title=AI21 Labs Bets on Accuracy, Develops Approach for Factual AI |url=https://thenewstack.io/ai21-labs-bets-on-accuracy-develops-approach-for-factual-ai/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=The New Stack |language=en-US}} VentureBeat compared it with AI-powered Grammarly while The New York Times and some other media called Wordtune a rival to ChatGPT.{{Cite web |last=Quach |first=Katyanna |title=AI21 Labs writing tool will not do all the hard work for you |url=https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/spices_ai_writing_tool/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=www.theregister.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Chen |first=Brian X. |date=2023-02-01 |title=A.I. Bots Can't Report This Column. But They Can Improve It. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/technology/personaltech/chatgpt-ai-bots-editing.html |access-date=2023-03-29 |issn=0362-4331}}