Google’s Jules aims to out-code Codex in battle for the AI developer stack

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Vibe coding and the growth of AI-powered coding platforms gave rise to yet another battleground among tech companies. In December, Google released Jules, an autonomous coding agent that can fix bugs asynchronously, as an experiment. However, during Google I/O, Google announced that Jules will now be available in beta. With the broader release of Jules, Google positions itself as a strong competitor against a rising number of AI coding assistants designed to write, check and fix code autonomously. Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs, told reporters in a briefing that Jules “will be available to help developers fix bugs, create tests, consult documentation all happening in the background.” “People are describing apps into existence,” Woodward said. “This started out as an asynchronous coding agent with the idea that, what if you created a way where ... Read full article.