Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub
Replit’s software development tool will use Google artificial intelligence language models to better write code
Google headquarters. The Alphabet Inc. company is joining with startup Replit to advance computer coding tools with artificial intelligence.
Photographer: Marlena Sloss/BloombergAlphabet Inc.’s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software from startup Replit Inc. that helps computer programmers write code, a bid to compete with a similar product from Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub and OpenAI.
Replit, which has 20 million users, said its Ghostwriter app will rely on Google’s language-generation AI to improve its ability to suggest blocks of code, complete programs and answer developer questions. Google Cloud Vice President June Yang declined to specify which language AI products Replit will use, noting that it’s a customized combination of systems that address different tasks like chat and code-generation.