Google Cloud Next: Google’s AI answer to Microsoft’s GitHub is here

At its Cloud Next event, Google has made several key announcements for Cloud, Google WorkSpace and more. One announcement bound to catch the eye of coders and developers is Gemini Code Assist. It offers AI-powered assistance to help developers build applications with higher velocity and quality in popular code editors like VS Code and JetBrains, said Google.

Google said that it deployed Gemini Code Assist to a group of developers inside Google and found they had more than 40% faster completion time for common dev tasks and spent roughly 55% less time writing new code. Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud said that  Gemini Cloud Assist provides AI assistance across application lifecycle, making it easier to design, secure, operate, troubleshoot, and optimise the performance and costs of an application.

Brad Calder, vice president and GM, Google Cloud said that Gemini Code Assist now allows developers to perform large-scale changes across their entire codebase, including adding new features, updating cross-file dependencies, helping with version upgrades, comprehensive code reviews, and more. “This capability is powered by Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro model, which offers a one-million-token context window, the largest in the industry,” said Calder in a blog post.

Microsoft had powered its Github platform for coders with Copilot, its AI tool. Google’s new features in Gemini Code Assist are in response to Microsoft’s AI-powered tools for coders and developers.