At the Cloud’s Next event, Google introduced its Gemini Code Assist, an A.I (artificial intelligence)-based system that can help write code with line completion.

Before then, Google had offered some capabilities of same functionality under the Duet Artificial Intelligence brand – they made this service available to the public at the end of 2023, at same time the company made known that in the nearest future this service with the completion of lines of code would be moved from the old model (Codey model) to the Gemini (more modern model). They aim to achieve two things with the release of Code Assist: rebranding the old service and a major update. They will make Code Assist available in plugin format for the two most popular environments JetBrains and VS Code.

What’s New on Gemini Code Assist?

Much more than its old version, Duet AI, Code Assist becomes a direct rival to GitHub Copilot Enterprise more than Copilot (its recent version). Gemini 1.5 Pro in particular has a context window of one million tokens – this gives the system the possibility to offer its own code variants even with higher accuracy, analyzing and changing its large fragments. Just like GitHub Copilot Enterprise, Code Assist can be further customized depending on a company’s internal code base—this feature is in preview currently. With Gemini Code Assist, you can maintain code across multiple repositories that includes GitLab, GitHub, and Atlassian BitBucket, and manage projects across these multiple platforms too. This is something hard for other competing services to offer currently.

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Moreover, Google introduced CodeGemma, an open-source model of the Gemma family built and configured for generating and editing code. CodeGemma is now made available on the cloud platform of Vertex AI. Google also announced Gemini Cloud Assist, this will help cloud teams to develop, operate and optimize applications throughout their system development lifecycle. The tool gives developers the ability to generate architecture configurations tailored to the company’s system requirements, diagnose problems and dictate their causes, and enhance the company’s use of cloud resources to drastically reduce costs or increase productivity. Note that Cloud Assist will be provided through a chat interface or as features built into other Google Cloud products.