diff --git a/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/cells/AICell.svelte b/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/cells/AICell.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4e11fb7ebd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/cells/AICell.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+<script>
+  import { onMount } from "svelte"
+  import { clickOutside } from "@budibase/bbui"
+  import GridPopover from "../overlays/GridPopover.svelte"
+
+  export let value
+  export let focused = false
+  export let api
+
+  let textarea
+  let isOpen = false
+  let anchor
+
+  $: {
+    if (!focused) {
+      isOpen = false
+    }
+  }
+
+  const onKeyDown = () => {
+    return isOpen
+  }
+
+  const open = async () => {
+    isOpen = true
+  }
+
+  const close = () => {
+    textarea?.blur()
+    isOpen = false
+  }
+
+  onMount(() => {
+    api = {
+      focus: () => open(),
+      blur: () => close(),
+      isActive: () => isOpen,
+      onKeyDown,
+    }
+  })
+</script>
+
+<!-- svelte-ignore a11y-no-static-element-interactions -->
+<!-- svelte-ignore a11y-click-events-have-key-events -->
+<div
+  class="long-form-cell"
+  on:click={open}
+  bind:this={anchor}
+>
+  <div class="value">
+    {value || ""}
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+{#if isOpen}
+  <GridPopover {anchor} on:close={close}>
+    <textarea
+      disabled
+      bind:this={textarea}
+      value={value || ""}
+      on:wheel|stopPropagation
+      spellcheck="false"
+      use:clickOutside={close}
+    />
+  </GridPopover>
+{/if}
+
+<style>
+  .long-form-cell {
+    flex: 1 1 auto;
+    padding: var(--cell-padding);
+    align-self: stretch;
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: flex-start;
+    overflow: hidden;
+  }
+  .long-form-cell.editable:hover {
+    cursor: text;
+  }
+  .value {
+    display: -webkit-box;
+    -webkit-line-clamp: var(--content-lines);
+    -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    line-height: 20px;
+  }
+  textarea {
+    border: none;
+    width: 320px;
+    flex: 1 1 auto;
+    height: var(--max-cell-render-overflow);
+    padding: var(--cell-padding);
+    margin: 0;
+    background: var(--cell-background);
+    font-size: var(--cell-font-size);
+    font-family: var(--font-sans);
+    color: inherit;
+    z-index: 1;
+    resize: none;
+    line-height: 20px;
+    overflow: auto;
+  }
+  textarea:focus {
+    outline: none;
+  }
+</style>
diff --git a/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/lib/renderers.js b/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/lib/renderers.js
index 8939103fe0..f9e26d920a 100644
--- a/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/lib/renderers.js
+++ b/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/lib/renderers.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import TextCell from "../cells/TextCell.svelte"
 import LongFormCell from "../cells/LongFormCell.svelte"
 import BooleanCell from "../cells/BooleanCell.svelte"
 import FormulaCell from "../cells/FormulaCell.svelte"
+import AICell from "../cells/AICell.svelte"
 import JSONCell from "../cells/JSONCell.svelte"
 import AttachmentCell from "../cells/AttachmentCell.svelte"
 import AttachmentSingleCell from "../cells/AttachmentSingleCell.svelte"
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ const TypeComponentMap = {
   [FieldType.ATTACHMENT_SINGLE]: AttachmentSingleCell,
   [FieldType.LINK]: RelationshipCell,
   [FieldType.FORMULA]: FormulaCell,
-  [FieldType.AI]: LongFormCell,
+  [FieldType.AI]: AICell,
   [FieldType.JSON]: JSONCell,
   [FieldType.BB_REFERENCE]: BBReferenceCell,
   [FieldType.BB_REFERENCE_SINGLE]: BBReferenceSingleCell,
diff --git a/packages/server/src/sdk/app/tables/internal/index.ts b/packages/server/src/sdk/app/tables/internal/index.ts
index 6e2a7df276..80b86b3b76 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/sdk/app/tables/internal/index.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/sdk/app/tables/internal/index.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import { EventType, updateLinks } from "../../../../db/linkedRows"
 import { cloneDeep } from "lodash/fp"
 import isEqual from "lodash/isEqual"
 import {
-  runAIColumnChecks,
   runStaticFormulaChecks,
 } from "../../../../api/controllers/table/bulkFormula"
 import { context } from "@budibase/backend-core"
@@ -136,7 +135,7 @@ export async function save(
   }
   // has to run after, make sure it has _id
   await runStaticFormulaChecks(table, { oldTable, deletion: false })
-  await runAIColumnChecks(table, { oldTable, deletion: false })
+  // await runAIColumnChecks(table, { oldTable, deletion: false })
   return { table }
 }