Replit launches new product in race for AI coding assistants | Semafor

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A Silicon Valley AI coding startup is launching a new tool that it hopes will change the way companies develop software. The concept, which the company planned to announce Tuesday at its annual Developer Day in San Francisco, is similar to Google Docs but for coding. Ultimately, humans will remain in the drivers’ seat, but Replit says it will allow the software development process to go faster and more smoothly. They’ll just jump in and present a fix,” said Replit founder and CEO Amjad Masad, in an exclusive interview with Semafor. Replit says its agent is built on a proprietary AI model that specializes in software development and outperforms GPT-4 in coding benchmarks but is a fraction of the size — 7 billion parameters compared to more than 1 trillion.

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