Google has updated its Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model with stronger coding capabilities, hoping developers would begin building with the model before the Google I/O developer conference later this month. Released May 6, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) is accessible in Google AI Studio tool and in Vertex AI. Commenting on the update, Google…
JetBrains has open-sourced its Mellum large language model (LLM), which was purpose-built for code completion, with the aim to grow Mellum into a family of models specialized for different coding tasks. The Mellum base model was open-sourced and made available on Hugging Face on April 30. By releasing Mellum on Hugging Face, JetBrains is offering…
Just because you can use generative AI in software development doesn’t mean you should. AI coding assistants powered by large language models (LLMs) are a productivity dream in some cases but a debugging nightmare in others. So, where is that line? “Knowing when and how to rely on AI code assistants is an important skill…
Generative AI has hit the mainstream with software developers. According to a recent GitHub survey, more than one million developers actively use GitHub Copilot. More importantly, these developers increasingly use AI as “a new building block in developing applications.” In other words, AI is becoming just as important to software development as tools like Visual…
In 2014, Microsoft Research released an experimental Bing Code Search add-on for Visual Studio and the web. It was a code snippet search tool for C# with a natural language interface, using an index of code from Stack Overflow, MSDN, Dotnetperls, and CSharp411, powered by Bing, running on Azure. The tool included a facility for…
Tabnine, maker of the Tabnine AI coding assistant, has unveiled the Tabnine Code Review Agent, an AI-powered software validation agent that helps users to produce higher quality, more secure code. Now available in a private preview for Tabnine enterprise customers, the Tabnine Code Review Agent is designed to enforce a development team’s best practices…
“Ho, hum,” I thought in response to the release of the OpenAI o1 models. “Yet another stochastic parrot.” I was wrong. In fact, I tried the o1-preview model on one of my standard programming tasks, and found it to be surprisingly good. The recently released ChatGPT o1-preview model is an early version of the much-rumored…
AI coding assistant Tabnine has added two AI agents that integrate with the Atlassian Jira project management platform, one for generating code from requirements outlined in Jira issues and one for validating code for those requirements. Unveiled September 24, the two agents include the Jira Implementation Agent and the Jira Validation Agent. With one click,…
Oracle Code Assist, the company’s AI-powered programming assistant, is available in a beta trial. The beta version is optimized for Java and adds capabilities intended to boost development of applications for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle said. Oracle also announced new features for OCI Kubernetes Engine aimed at deploying and managing AI workloads and cloud-native…
Tabnine, the “OG” AI-powered coding assistant, offers several powerful features that improve code generation and code generation, including context-aware suggestions, a chat window with a strong array of selectable AI models, and personalization of its models. The Tabnine Protected model supports about 15 popular programming languages at the “excellent” or “good” level, and another 65…
