Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories […]
Amazon CodeWhisperer is now called Q Developer and is expanding its functions
Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon’s AI-powered assistive coding tool. As of today, it’s kaput — sort of. CodeWhisperer is now Q Developer, a part of Amazon’s Q […]
Copilot Workspace is GitHub’s take on AI-powered software engineering
Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE? GitHub’s floating the idea. At its annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco on Monday, GitHub announced Copilot Workspace, […]
Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M
AI is supercharging coding — and developers are embracing it. In a recent StackOverflow poll, 44% of software engineers said that they use AI tools as part of […]
StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most GPUs
Developers are adopting AI-powered code generators — services like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, along with open access models such as Meta’s CodeLlama — at an astonishing rate. […]
Refact aims to make code-generating AI more appealing to enterprises
In 2021, Oleg Klimov, Vlad Guber and Oleg Kiyasko set out to co-create a platform, Refact.ai, that could convince more companies to embrace GenAI for coding by affording […]
GitHub makes Copilot Chat generally available, letting devs ask questions about code
Earlier this year, GitHub rolled out Copilot Chat, a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot for organizations subscribed to Copilot for Business. Copilot Chat more recently came to individual Copilot customers — […]
Laredo wants to use gen AI to automate dev work
Developers are embracing AI — some surveys suggests, at least. The Q&A site Stack Overflow polled devs on their attitudes toward code-generating AI tools and found that the […]
Amazon unveils Q, an AI-powered chatbot for businesses
Amazon is launching an AI-powered chatbot for AWS customers called Q. Announced during a keynote at Amazon’s re:Invent conference today, Q — starting at $20 per user per […]
Codegen raises new cash to automate software engineering tasks
Jay Hack, an AI researcher with a background in natural language processing and computer vision, came to the realization several years ago that large language models (LLMs) — […]