AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow's R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems along the lines of GitHub's Copilot.

StarCoder, a new open-access large language model (LLM) for code generation from ServiceNow and Hugging Face, is now available for Visual Studio Code, positioned as an alternative to GitHub Copilot.

Meta, intent on making a splash in a generative AI space rife with competition, is on something of an open source tear. "At Meta, we believe that AI models, but large language models for coding in ...

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Meta has recently released a new addition to its AI arsenal, Code Llama. Code Llama seeks to transform the coding experience by generating and explaining code using natural language, demonstrating the ...

ServiceNow Inc. and Hugging Face Inc. today introduced StarCoder, an open-source artificial intelligence model model that can generate code in multiple programming languages. The companies claim that ...

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Meta updated its foundation model, Code Llama, to support 70B, which makes it a viable alternative to closed AI code models. Code Llama 70B is described as the "largest and best-performing model" yet, ...

Large language models like GPT-4 and tools like GitHub Copilot can make good programmers more efficient and bad programmers more dangerous. Are you ready to dive in? When I wrote about GitHub Copilot ...