Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor

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Google announces the launch of a new AI-centric code tool to compete with GitHub's Copilot, providing new code completion and generation features for Google's Codey Base, Appsheet, and more.

Codey is a large language model specifically trained to handle coding-related prompts and queries, and it can currently support Go, Java, Javascript, Python, and SQL.

The tools include a competitor to GitHub's Copilot, a chat tool for coding questions, and AI-assisted coding in Google's AppSheet.
The core of these tools is Codey, based on Google's PaLM 2 language model.
Codey was trained to handle coding prompts and queries related to Google Cloud.
It was trained on open-source and internal Google code.
Developers can access the tools through extensions for various IDEs and Google's Workstations service.
The code generation features support Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, and SQL.
Developers can chat with the model in their IDE or generate code from comments.
Google emphasizes integration with the Google Cloud Platform.
Currently, only trusted testers have access, with more information expected at Google's Cloud Next event.
Google aims to use the models to help developers manage services on Google Cloud, freeing them from routine work.