Google released a new, free version of Gemini Code Assist, its AI code completion and help tool, for individuals on Tuesday. The company calls it Gemini Code Assist for Individuals. The company also released Gemini Code Assist for GitHub, a code review “agent” that will look for bugs in code automatically and make comments right in GitHub.
With Code Assist for Individuals, developers can talk to a Google AI model in natural language through a chat window. The AI model can then view and change the developers’ codebase. Like the well-known Copilot tool on GitHub, Gemini Code Assist for Individuals can fix bugs, finish chunks of code, or explain parts of the script that don’t make sense.
The Google AI coding assistant uses a version of the company’s Gemini 2.0 AI model that has been tweaked to work better with code tasks. Gemini Code Assist for Individuals has plugins that let it work with popular coding environments like VS Code and JetBrains. It also supports a lot of famous programming languages.
Notably, Code Assist for Individuals lets you finish 180,000 lines of code every month, which is 90 times more than the 2,000 lines of code that you can finish with the free GitHub Copilot plan. Individuals can also make 240 chat requests per day with Code Assist. This is almost 5 times as many as the free GitHub Copilot plan lets you make.
Google says that the model that runs Code Assist for Individuals has a 128,000-token context window, which is four times bigger than what the competition offers. That means the model can understand more code at once, which lets it work with more difficult codebases.
Tuesday is the first day that developers can sign up for the free public trial of Gemini Code Assist for Individuals.
When you use Gemini Code Assist for GitHub, it checks pull requests automatically for bugs and makes other suggestions that might be useful.
It’s clear that Google wants to compete with Microsoft and its developer tools company, GitHub. With these two new tools, Google is doing even more to do so. Ryan Salva, who used to lead the GitHub Copilot team, was hired by Google seven months ago to lead the company’s work on developer tools.
Code Assist is a free AI coding assistant that Google hopes will attract new developers. Salva told Parhlo World in an interview that Google thinks this will happen. According to Salva, at least some of those developers will eventually switch to a corporate Code Assist plan. This is how Google will make money.
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Since about a year ago, Google has sold Gemini Code Assist to companies. In December, the company said that the AI coding helper would soon work with GitLab, GitHub, and Google Docs third-party tools. The Enterprise Code Assist tiers add things like audit logs, the ability to connect to other Google Cloud products, and the ability to make private files uniquely yours.
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