At its annual I/O developer conference, Google launched a variety of AI-centric coding tools, including its own version of GitHub’s Copilot. Google introduced a chat tool to ask questions about coding, AI-assisted coding for its no-code AppSheet product, and a code generation and completion tool called Codey, which is trained to handle coding-related prompts and queries related to Google Cloud in general. Codey was developed using Google’s PaLM 2 large language model and trained on a large corpus of open-source and Google code samples. Developers can access these tools through various extensions and cloud-hosted services and chat with Codey to generate code. Google hopes to use these models to help developers manage all their services on Google Cloud in the future. Only trusted testers will use the tool for now, and more information will be available at Google’s Cloud Next event in August.
