Google teams with AI firm Replit to aid generative AI for software development

Leading cloud software development platform Replit announced a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud. Under the new partnership, Replit developers will get access to Google Cloud infrastructure, services, and foundation models via Ghostwriter, Replit’s software development AI, while Google Cloud and Workspace developers will get access to Replit’s collaborative code editing platform. The collaboration will accelerate the creation of generative AI applications and underscores Google Cloud’s commitment to nurturing the most open ecosystem for generative AI..For developers using Replit’s Ghostwriter coding AI, more than 30% of their code is generated by Ghostwriter. The newest LLM chat apps can generate code for full programs with simple natural language prompts, enabling the creation of full websites with no coding experience in minutes. But even powerful LLMs can’t run code themselves. Standalone chat LLMs do not have a project’s context. They require developers to copy and paste code from where they work to the chat app… Until LLMs are brought into the integrated development environment itself, IDE , we aren’t yet at the future that Replit CEO Amjad Masad has laid out, where AI will help: Make non-developers into developers, turning natural language to code…Turn software engineers to hyper-productive "10X engineers"…Replit’s cloud infrastructure and AI products like Ghostwriter make it one of the fastest places to go from idea to deployed software application. Through this new partnership with Google Cloud, developers using Replit will have global access to Google Cloud infrastructure and Google’s foundation models on Vertex AI. The collaboration aims to support Google Cloud’s goal of enabling companies to accelerate their development process using AI. Other companies that have similar products or services include Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN).