Google announced several AI-centric coding tools at its annual I/O developer conference, including an AI-assisted coding feature in its no-code AppSheet product and a chat tool for asking coding and Google Cloud service questions.

The cornerstone of these tools is Codey, a coding-related prompts handler based on Google’s PaLM 2 language model, which was trained on open-source and internal Google code.

The chatbot technology is intended to help developers manage their services on Google Cloud, including application deployment and scaling. The tools will be available through an extension for JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio Code, the Google Shell Editor, and the Google cloud-hosted Workstations service.

Currently, the code generation features support Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, and SQL. A small group of trusted testers will be able to try the new tools, which will be further unveiled at Google’s Cloud Next event in August.

Google aims to put AI at the center of the cloud experience, making it more human-centric and goal-oriented.

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