Google's new AI grammar checker is now live in Google Docs

Google today announced that its new machine learning-powered grammar checker is now live in Google Docs for G Suite users. The company first introduced this new feature at Cloud Next 2018, but it lingered in early access ever since. Grammar checkers are nothing new, of course, and even Docs itself has long had one. What's new here is that Google uses machine translation techniques to find obvious mistakes (see headline) as well as more subtle issues. It's one thing, after all, to compare words in a dictionary to what you're writing and mark up mistakes. It's another to understand complex grammar rules, which can vary by region and style.