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.
