Google launches Code Assist, its latest challenger to GitHub's Copilot

Google has introduced Gemini Code Assist, an AI code completion and assistance tool, at its Cloud Next conference. The tool, a rebrand and update of the now-defunct Duet AI, will be available through plugins for popular editors and is designed to compete with GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise. It offers a million-token context window for more accurate code suggestions and large-scale changes, and can be fine-tuned based on a company’s internal code base. It also supports codebases on-premises and those split between different services, a feature not offered by its competitors.

In addition to Code Assist, Google also announced Gemini Cloud Assist, a tool designed to help cloud teams design, operate, and optimize their application lifecycle. It can generate tailored architecture configurations, diagnose issues, and optimize cloud usage to reduce costs or improve performance. Google also launched CodeGemma, an open model fine-tuned for code generation and assistance, now available through Vertex AI.

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Google has unveiled Gemini Code Assist, an AI code completion and assistance tool, at its Cloud Next conference. This tool is a rebrand and major update of the now-defunct Duet AI service.
Gemini Code Assist will be available through plug-ins for popular editors like VS Code and JetBrains, and is a direct competitor to GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise.
The tool supports Gemini 1.5 Pro, which has a million-token context window, allowing for more-accurate code suggestions and the ability to reason over and change large chunks of code.
Google also announced Gemini Cloud Assist, a tool to help cloud teams design, operate, and optimize their application lifecycle, and CodeGemma, a new open model in its Gemma family that was fine-tuned for code generation and assistance.

Google launches Code Assist, its latest challenger to GitHub's Copilot | TechCrunch

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