February 26, 2011 - On February 25th, local time, theGoogleannounced a free version for individual developers of the Gemini Code AssistThe program is designed to make it easier for students, hobbyists, freelancers, and startups to access programming assistants "with the latest AI capabilities".
Ryan J. Salva, senior director of product management at Google, said it's now easier for anyone to learn, create code snippets, debug and modify existing applications without having to toggle between different windows to get help or copy and paste information from unrelated sources. "While other popular free programming assistants are typically limited to 2,000 code completions per month, we wanted to offerMore generous service. "
In contrast, Google offers up to 180,000 code completions per month, which Google calls "a cap so high" that even the most dedicated professional developer would be hard-pressed to exceed it.
Gemini Code Assist for individuals is powered by Google's Gemini 2.0 model and can generateComplete code block, completing the code at the time of writing and providing general programming assistance through the chatbot interface.
1AI has learned that this freeProgramming ToolsIt can be installed in the Visual Studio Code, GitHub and JetBrains development environment that is compatible with all public domain programming languages.
Developers can use natural language to instruct Gemini Code Assist to, for example, ask a programmed chatbot to "build me a simple HTML form with name, email, and message fields, then add a 'Submit' button. "
It currently supports 38 languages and up to 128,000 chat input tokens in the context window, i.e. the amount of text that can be processed or "remembered" when generating a response.
However, the free personal versionExcludes all business-oriented features in Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise Editions.Advanced features. If there is a need for productivity metrics, integration with Google Cloud Services such as BigQuery, or customizing responses using private code data sources, the paid version is required.
