[Software] Google Cloud partners with Replit to promote GhostWriter, the generative AI for software development

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Google Cloud has partnered with the startup Replit to combine its infrastructure and its artificial intelligence (AI) language models with the 'software' capable of writing Ghostwriter application programming code , so that both companies can "accelerate " creating generative AI applications.Replit is an online IDE service , that is, an editor, compiler, interpreter, and REPL (read-evaluate-print-loop), with which users can write code and build applications and websites through a browser.

 

   For its part, Ghostwriter is a Replit application that the startup began developing last October 2022, designed to execute tasks such as autocompletion and code transformation.

 

   Replit later added a conversational AI interface to Ghostwriter . In this way, the application became capable of generating, repairing, and suggesting programming code. This option was included in order to help developers increase their productivity and creativity when creating 'software'.Now, Google Cloud has partnered with this 'startup' to have access to Replit's collaborative code editing platform . Furthermore, with this partnership, Replit developers gain access to Google Cloud's infrastructure, services, and core models through Ghostwriter. In this sense, Replit, which currently has 20 million developers, intends to obtain the necessary momentum with Google and its resources to "empower the next 1,000 million 'software' creators ", as the 'startup' has underlined. ' in a statement on his blog .

 

   And it is reiterated by the vice president of Cloud AI and Industry Solutions at Google Cloud, June Yang, who stresses that the Google Cloud infrastructure and the basic models in Vertex AI will provide "more performance" to the Replit platform and ensure its scalability "to millions of developers around the world.

 

   Based on all this, thanks to the momentum and resources that Google brings to Replit, Ghostwriter can become a competitor to GitHub Copilot , the AI-powered developer service that was launched last year 2022 and is owned by Microsoft.

 

    In fact, as the CEO of Replit, Amjad Masad, stated in an interview with Bloomberg collected by Europa Press, " Google has much better technology than most people know."Similarly, in another interview with Masad for Semafor, he confirmed that there is "definitely" a race between Replit and Microsoft . "We will be the first. They will probably copy us," he sentenced.

 

   He also indicated that despite having "great respect" for all GitHub Copilot developers, working with this service is akin to "talking to the AI on the phone," the user " yelling out keystrokes" and the AI " screaming potential results".

 

ADVANTAGES OF GHOSTWRITER.Among other advantages that Ghostwriter offers, developers will be able to generate code for entire programs simply by providing natural language indications of what they want to do. Thus, it is possible to create complete websites without the need for knowledge or experience in the coding sector and "in a matter of minutes".

 

   Being part of Replit, where the project itself is developed, Ghostwriter already has the context of the developer's project and, therefore, can know what is needed or what is intended to be done.

 

   Additionally, this feature reduces the wasted time of developers copying and pasting code from where they work to the chat application. By following this thread, the application has instant code repair capabilities to resolve coding errors even before the developer identifies the error.

 

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