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Replit and Google Cloud Partner to Advance Generative AI for Software DevelopmentWith new partnership, Replit's 20M+ developers get access to Google Cloud services, infrastructure, and foundation models, further reducing the time from idea to live software on Replit SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading cloud software development platform Replit today announced a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud. Under the new partnership, Replit developers will get access to Google Cloud infrastructure, services, and foundation models via Ghostwriter, Replit's software development AI, while Google Cloud and Workspace developers will get access to Replit's collaborative code editing platform. The collaboration will accelerate the creation of generative AI applications and underscores Google Cloud's commitment to nurturing the most open ecosystem for generative AI. For Replit, already 20 million developers strong, this partnership with Google Cloud is its next move in realizing its mission to empower the next 1 billion software creators. Coding with AI AI is changing software development. For developers using Replit's Ghostwriter coding AI, more than 30% of their code is generated by Ghostwriter. The newest LLM chat apps can generate code for full programs with simple natural language prompts, enabling the creation of full websites with no coding experience in minutes. But even powerful LLMs can't run code themselves. Standalone chat LLMs do not have a project's context. They require developers to copy and paste code from where they work to the chat app. This leads to inefficient switching of tabs and requires additional prompting. Even then, the separate chat app won't have the richness of knowing where in the coding tool the developer can achieve their goal and run their program. Until LLMs are brought into the integrated development environment itself (IDE), we aren't yet at the future that Replit CEO Amjad Masad has laid out, where AI will help:
So what's next? How can developers get the full power of LLMs, end to end … fast? Enter Replit, powered by Google Cloud infrastructure and foundation models under this partnership. From Idea to Live App in Seconds on Replit At more than 20 million developers and more than 240 million repls (projects) created, Replit is one of the fastest-growing developer platforms. Replit's cloud-based platform is unique as a place for AI:
Partnering in AI Last fall, Replit developed and launched Ghostwriter in three months, starting with code autocompletion and transformation. In January 2023, Replit added a conversational AI interface for generating code and proactive debugging, with knowledge of the developer's files and workspace. "Our partnership with Google Cloud on infrastructure and AI is a clear step toward our mission of bringing the next billion software creators online. AI has changed software development forever. The seamless idea-to-deployed software experience that Replit provides developers will continue to set a new bar for software creation," said Amjad Masad, the CEO and Head of Engineering at Replit. "We're thrilled to build this." "Generative AI can bring significant new capabilities to businesses and developers, including the ability to easily, safely, and scalably create new software applications and online experiences with little or no coding experience," said June Yang, VP, Cloud AI, and Industry Solutions at Google Cloud. "Google Cloud infrastructure and foundation models in Vertex AI will power Replit's widely-adopted platform, delivering more performance and scalability to millions of developers around the world." With this Google Cloud partnership and technological capabilities, Replit will build bigger and faster. Try out Replit today at replit.com. Follow @amasad or @replit on Twitter or Replit on LinkedIn. For media inquiries, reach out to [email protected]. For high res logos, visit replit.com/brandkit. About Replit About Google Cloud View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/replit-and-google-cloud-partner-to-advance-generative-ai-for-software-development-301783471.html SOURCE Replit |