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Qodo, the fast growing AI coding startup from Israel focused on code quality, has announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud aimed at advancing the integrity of AI-generated software.
As organizations increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to produce large portions of their codebases, the need for effective oversight and quality assurance tools is growing.
According to Qodo’s CEO Itamar Friedman, AI-generated code is no longer just supplemental — it is becoming foundational to modern development.
“Imagine a future where AI writes all the code; humans won’t be able to review it,” said Friedman. “There must be a system to ensure the values and intentions behind that code remain intact.”
Qodo’s journey has all led up to this point
Before its collaboration with Google Cloud, Qodo had already made notable strides in the enterprise software development space.
Formerly known as Codium, the company rebranded to Qodo in fall 2024 to reflect its growing focus on holistic code quality and AI-driven engineering support.
One of its major breakthroughs came in February 2025 with the release of Qodo-Embed-1-1.5B, a lightweight yet high-performing open-source code embedding model.
The 1.5-billion-parameter model achieved top scores on industry-standard benchmarks like the Code Information Retrieval Benchmark (CoIR), outperforming larger and more resource-intensive offerings from OpenAI and Salesforce. It was designed specifically to help development teams search, retrieve, and contextualize code accurately across vast, multi-language codebases—making it particularly relevant for large-scale enterprise environments.
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