Continue wants to help developers create and share custom AI coding assistants

A new startup wants to help developers create customized, contextual coding assistants that can connect with any model and integrate seamlessly with their development environments. Founded in June 2023 by CEO Ty Dunn and CTO Nate Sesti (pictured above), Y Combinator alum Continue has already garnered some 23,000 stars on GitHub and 11,000 Discord community members over the past couple of years. To build on this momentum, Continue is announcing version 1.0 of its product, supported by a fresh $3 million in seed funding. Coding assistant explosion Continue’s launch comes amid an explosion in AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Google’s Gemini Code Assist, not to mention younger upstarts such as Codeium and Cursor, which have raised bucketloads of cash from investors. Continue, for its part, pitches itself as “the leading open-source AI code assistant” that can connect with any model and lets teams add their own context by pulling in data from platforms like Jira or Confluenc ... Read full article.