Google launches AI Gemini Code Assist for free, with near unlimited code completions
Google has announced that its AI-powered coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist, is now available for free to individual users globally. This move introduces a generous free tier offering up to 180,000 code completions per month, significantly surpassing the limits of competing tools like GitHub Copilot (2000 code suggestions and 50 messages per month).
The tool supports all public domain programming languages, providing developers with versatile coding assistance across different environments. It features a 128,000-token input window for more context-aware coding and AI-powered code reviews for both public and private GitHub repositories. Extensions for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs ensure compatibility with popular development platforms.
Access to Gemini Code Assist requires only a personal Gmail account, with no payment necessary. The free tier is comprehensive but does not include advanced business-focused features such as productivity metrics, Google Cloud integrations, and private code customization, which are available in the paid Standard and Enterprise tiers.
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- Try free Gemini Code Assist and Gemini Code Review in GitHubGoogle The Keyword • Official source
- Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage capsTechCrunch
- Google announces free Gemini Code Assist for individuals9to5Google
- Google Gemini’s AI coding tool is now free for individual usersThe Verge
- Google's Gemini Code Assist offers near-unlimited code completions for freeNeowin
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It's to note that it is the same product that is really offered for free in Android Studio and Firebase (both Google products), i.e. a pretty cheap to train and run chatbot specialized for coding, with decent results for small codebase. Since Gemini's user base is much lower than Copilot's one, Google has to offer a great deal to push developers to change their habit, and Github/Microsoft will certainly follow it. So it's just a tiny war of free very specialized AI tools from two companies desperate from making a dime with AI. And since many new CPU integrate a fair share of NPU (like the AMD Ryzen AI Max), theses models that already run smoothly in local on all high-end computers, will soon be able to run perfectly fine in local with many computers, and even be trained without Microsoft or Google giant investments. So yes, it's a great time for AI!
Nice insight! Thanks for bringing that up.