Google joins forces with Replit to challenge Microsoft's AI programming tool GitHub Copilot

On March 29, Google announced a partnership with online IDE developer Replit to integrate Replit’s AI-based code suggestion tool into its cloud platform. In an attempt to challenge Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.

According to IT House, GitHub Copilot is a programming tool driven by OpenAI’s Codex language model. It can provide code suggestions based on comments and functions entered by programmers, just like a super auto-completion function. .

Now Google wants in on the action. Under the agreement with Replit, Google will give the startup access to its vast computing resources and custom AI models. In return, Google will host and provide Replit's code-editing software on Google Cloud.

Specifically, Replit developers will gain access to Google Cloud infrastructure, services and underlying models through Ghostwriter, Replit’s software for developing AI, while Google Cloud and Workspace developers will gain access to Replit access to a collaborative code editing platform.

Replit’s Ghostwriter code generator is integrated directly into the company’s online browser-based IDE, where it can automatically complete code and respond to natural language queries. Replit CEO Amjad Masad believes this helps programmers be more productive and can help people fix bugs and collaborate with colleagues more easily.

Replit says it supports more than 20 million developers and claims its Ghostwriter bot helps generate more than 30% of users' code. Meanwhile, Microsoft is planning to upgrade its GitHub Copilot model to GPT-4.

AI programming tools have continued to improve over time, and in addition to code completion, they can now generate code based on instructions in natural language text. However, these tools are not perfect, and even though they can help those with less programming experience write code, developers still need to have enough technical knowledge to judge whether their output is correct.

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