Google’s Gemini AI Wants to Revolutionize How Your Business Codes—Here’s What You Need to Know
October 9, 2024Google is taking coding assistance to the next level with its new Gemini Code Assist Enterprise, which aims to streamline the coding process for business developers. With Gemini AI’s advanced capabilities, writing, customizing, and improving code can now be done faster and more efficiently.
Powered by the Gemini 1.5 Pro AI model, this new platform goes beyond typical code assistance, offering contextual understanding, custom suggestions, and seamless integration with Google Cloud services like Firebase, BigQuery, and more.
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What is Gemini Code Assist Enterprise?
Gemini Code Assist Enterprise is Google’s latest tool tailored for enterprise-level coding needs. It doesn’t just help write code; it understands your organization’s best practices and internal libraries to ensure that the code suggestions align with the company’s standards. This context-aware coding assistance minimizes errors, boosts code relevancy, and helps developers get better insights while building applications.
What Makes Gemini AI Different?
While AI-powered coding isn’t new, Google’s Gemini AI brings a few game-changing features to the table:
- Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP): Gemini understands natural language prompts, making it easy for developers to refactor, debug, or optimize code by simply describing what they want.
- Large Token Context Window: This allows the model to maintain context over longer development sessions, providing better recommendations for codebases that span across multiple files and modules.
- Enterprise-Level Security: Data privacy and compliance are built into the platform, ensuring that sensitive information stays protected.
- Full Integration with Google Cloud Tools: The tool is fully integrated with Google Cloud offerings like Databases, Firebase, and Apigee, making it easier to work across the tech stack.
Enhanced Productivity for Businesses
The platform’s ability to generate code aligned with internal libraries means it can quickly produce tailored solutions, whether it’s for database integration or front-end development. For example, if your company frequently uses specific APIs or libraries, Gemini can make suggestions based on that history, reducing the time spent on coding repetitive components.
The tool also allows developers to switch between different languages and frameworks, making it versatile for projects that require diverse tech stacks.
As Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Developer Tools and Operations pointed out, “Software development is the engine of the modern economy, however, creating great applications across the tech stack is complex because of an increasing number of abstraction levels, integrations, vendors, and a dearth of experienced developers.
Google Cloud believes that the best approach to address development challenges lies in providing an AI-powered application development solution that works across the tech stack, to provide better contextual suggestions, enterprise-grade security commitments, and integrations across our cloud that allow for developers to be more versatile and work with a wider set of services faster.”
Price and Availability
Gemini Code Assist Enterprise is available at a monthly cost of $45 per user, with a discounted annual plan of $19 monthly per user until March 31, 2025. No additional purchases are required for users of BigQuery, Firebase, and other integrated services.