Writesonic is a company that develops artificial intelligence tools for content creation. It was founded by Samanyou Garg in October 2020 and is based in San Francisco. The platform uses GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 technologies.

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Originally known as Magicflow, Writesonic secured seed funding of $2.5 million from various investors, including

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, HOF Capital, and Soma Capital. The company's technology is designed to generate content using AI models. The company was involved with a scandal surrounding the Academy Award winning film Navalny, about

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, when it was revealed that

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published an article by journalist

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where she claimed she used Writesonic to produce inaccurate information in the review.

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