Google Makes Gemini Code Assistant Available for Everyone

Google is throwing a major lifeline to students and hobbyist coders with Gemini Code Assistant, a free AI coding assistant that supports all publicly available coding languages, the company said Tuesday. Gemini Code Assistant, previously available only for enterprise customers, will give everyone access to a "practically unlimited" AI coding assistant, the company said in a press release. Gemini Code Assistant allows 180,000 completions per month, which Google says is 90 times more code completions than other free coding assistants on the market. "A professional developer coding every day is probably going to use maybe half of that," said Ryan J. Salva, senior director of product at Google in charge of developer experiences. "You would have to be a wildly dedicated developer coding 14 hours a day, every day, just banging on it in order to get to those limits." Google says Gemini Code Assistant has a generous 128,000 input token support in chat and can use natural language to help ge ... Read full article.