Overview
- Superhuman has bought GPTZero in a deal that transfers founders Edward Tian and Alex Cui and roughly 30 GPTZero employees into Superhuman while keeping GPTZero available as a standalone product and not disclosing financial terms.
- Superhuman says it will make GPTZero’s detection capabilities available inside Superhuman Go and use the technology to strengthen its existing Grammarly AI detector and an Authorship product that verifies writing.
- GPTZero reports it grew rapidly after a viral Princeton launch and has more than 19 million registered users and about $30 million in annual recurring revenue, and PitchBook has estimated the company’s valuation at over $88 million.
- Company leaders describe the acquisition as a people-first move to build an internal authenticity team that will focus on detecting AI-generated text and hallucinations for users in education, consulting, recruiting, and journalism.
- Superhuman expects to scale GPTZero’s tools using its larger product footprint and revenue base, which includes roughly 40 million daily users and over $700 million a year from its Grammarly business, with education representing about a third of that revenue.