Gemini Code Assist, Google’s AI that writes code, free for individual users

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By Jack Ferson

Google today launched a Free version For individual users of Gemini Code Assistyour assistant to program based on your generative artificial intelligence Gemini 2.0. So far it was only available, paying, for professionals and companies.

Gemini Code Assist Face plant thus Github Copilot, Microsoft’s AI that functions as a writing code assistant, whose free version now has enough more limitations.

While the free version of Github Copilot offers a maximum of 2,000 code terminations per month, The new free version of Gemini Code Assist reaches 180,000 monthly code terminations. “A roof so high that even the most dedicated professional developers could hardly overcome it,” says Google on his blog.

What is Gemini Code Assist for free

Gemini Code Assist is an assistant with AI to program. In simple words, a chatgpt chatbot, but only understands programming languages.

This -based on Gemini 2.0 Google can program in the dozens of public domain programming languages ​​that exist. You can ask you: “Generate code in HTML to include a form on my website to receive opinions”, and you will have the code in seconds.

Gemini Code Assist It can also be used to correct or fill in code while you write, or ask you to help with a certain part that choks you.

It can be used through platforms Visual Studio Code, GitHub, y JetBrains, and is available in Spanish and another 37 languages.

In the context window you accept up to 128.000 tokenswhich is the amount of text that you can handle, when generating the code, according to what you ask.

You can access Gemini Code Assist free from your website. Although it is the full version, it does not have some of the functionalities focused on companies in the payment version, such as productivity or integration metrics in Google Cloud. For that you must use the payment versions.

Google’s Free Gemini Assist version is a hard blow to Github Copilotwhose free variant is much more limited. We will see how Microsoft responds …

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Tags: open source, artificial intelligence, programming

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