On Tuesday, Google presented a new free consumption version of its tool for the completion and assistance of AI code, Gemini Code Assistanceand that the company calls Gemini code assistance for people. The company also launched Gemini Code Assist for Github, a “code review agent” designed to automatically search code errors and offer suggestions directly within Github.
Code assistance for people allows developers to use a chat window to speak in natural language with a Google Ai model that can access and edit their code base. Very similar to The popular github co -driver toolGemini Code Assist for people can fix errors, complete code sections or explain parts of the code base that make no sense.
Google’s coding assistant uses a variant of the Gemini 2.0 AI model of the company that has been adjusted for coding applications. Gemini Code Assist for people can be integrated with popular coding environments such as Code and Jetbrains through accessories, and works in many popular programming languages.
In particular, the code assistance for people offers 180,000 code terminations per month, which is 90 times the limit of use of the free Github co -driver plan (2,000 code completions per month). Code assistance for people also comes with 240 chat applications per day, about 5 times the number of applications offered by the free Github co -driver plan.
The assistance of the model food code for people has a context window of 128,000 Token, which Google says it is more than four times larger than the competition offers. That means that the model can take more code in a single message, which allows you to reason on more complicated code bases.
Developers can register in the free public view of Gemini Code Assist for people who begin on Tuesday.
Regarding Gemini code assistance for Github, automatically scan the extraction requests to search for errors and offer possibly additional recommendations.
The two tools arrive when Google increases their efforts to compete with Microsoft and its subsidiary, Github, in the developer tools space. Seven months ago, Google hired Ryan Salva, who previously led the Github co -pilot team, to head Google’s work in developer tools.
By offering a free AI coding assistant with very high use limits, Google hopes to lead the developers at the beginning of their careers towards code assistance, he saved Techcrunch in an interview. Salva expects at least some of these developers to update a business code assistance plan, which is where Google will earn their money.
Google has been selling Gemini code assistance to companies for about a year. The company announced in December that the soon coding assistant integrate with third -party tools of Gitlab, Github and Google Docs. Business code assistance levels add characteristics such as audit records, integration with other Google cloud products and customization for private repositories.