Has Codeium Cracked the Code for AI Assistants?
Summary
Codeium started life in 2021 as Exafunction, an infrastructure startup that provided big compute for other companies developing deep learning systems. Mohan and his business partner, Douglas Chen, managed 10,000 GPUs on behalf of autonomous vehicle development companies, an industry they previously worked in. And that’s what makes it so cool.” Mohan and Chen pivoted from supporting autonomous driving startups and launched Codeium in early 2023 with an AI coding assistant. When Codeium launched, the market for AI-powered assistance was dominated by GitHub Copilot, the product of a collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI that debuted in June 2021. “We’re one of the top five largest generative AI apps in the world in terms of amount of text processed every day for the product.” And it’s not just empty virtual keystrokes, either.