Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Google DeepMind has released a free version of its AI-powered coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist, expanding access to advanced coding tools for developers worldwide. This launch follows the October 2024 debut of Gemini Code Assist Enterprise ($45 per month per user or $19 per month with an annual subscription) and arrives just a day after Anthropic introduced Claude Code, highlighting the growing competition among AI-powered developer tools.Gemini Code Assist is powered by the Gemini 2.0 model, fine-tuned to handle real-world coding scenarios and supporting all programming languages in the public domain. Users can generate up to 180,000 code completions per month — significantly more than other free coding assistants, including popular tool Cursor AI which offers only 2,000 code completions per month on its free tier — while leveraging a 128,000-token context window for working with larger codebases. The assistant integrates with Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, Firebase, Android Studio and GitHub.In GitHub, Gemini Code Assist reviews code in both public and private repositories, detecting bugs, suggesting stylistic improvements and summarizing pull requests.In the official company blog post from Google, Ryan J

AI programming startup Codeium is raising a new funding round at a valuation of $2.85 billion (approximately NT$93.3 billion), more than doubling its valuation from a year ago. Founded in 2021 by Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen, Codeium offers an AI tool for programming that supports over 70 languages and integrates with more than 40 IDEs. It targets enterprise clients with features like self-hosting for data security. Codeium's strategy includes offering free services to drive adoption while optimizing GPU usage to manage costs.