Google launches a free AI coding assistant – What to know

Google has released a new, free version of Gemini Code Assist today. It’s an AI code completion and help tool for individuals. The company calls it Gemini Code Assist for Individuals. 

The company also released Gemini Code Assist for GitHub. It is a code review “agent” that automatically finds bugs in code and comments on them right in GitHub.

We’re launching a free version of Gemini Code Assist globally to help you build faster. It comes with:
🛠️ 180K code completions per month
🌐 Support for all programming languages in the public domain
💡 128K token context window

Get started → https://t.co/w12E5VDPI3 pic.twitter.com/UJv98rre8X

— Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) February 25, 2025

With Code Assist for Individuals, developers can talk to a Google AI model in natural language through a chat window. At the moment, it works with 38 languages.

 The AI model can then view and change the developers’ codebase. Just like the well-known Copilot tool on GitHub, Gemini Code Assist for Individuals can fix bugs, finish chunks of code, or explain parts of the script that don’t make sense.

Today is the first day that developers can sign up for the free public trial of Gemini Code Assist for Individuals. As for Gemini Code Assist for GitHub, it checks pull requests automatically for bugs and makes other suggestions that might be useful.

The coding assistant – Details

The Google AI coding assistant uses a version of the company’s Gemini 2.0 AI model that has been tweaked to work better with code tasks. Gemini Code Assist for Individuals has plugins that let it work with popular coding environments like VS Code and JetBrains. It also supports many famous programming languages.

What stands out? Code Assist for Individuals offers 180,000 code completions a month. This is 90 times more than the free GitHub Copilot plan’s limit of 2,000 lines of code per month. In addition, individuals can also make 240 chat requests per day with Code Assist. This is almost 5 times as many as the free GitHub Copilot plan lets you make.

Google says that the model that runs Code Assist for Individuals also has a 128,000-token context window, which is four times bigger than what the competition offers. That means the model can understand more code at once, which lets it work with more difficult codebases.

Ryan J. Salva, Google’s senior director of product management, said, “Now anyone can more conveniently learn, create code snippets, debug, and modify their existing applications — all without needing to toggle between different windows for help or to copy and paste information from disconnected sources.

Salva added, “While other popular free coding assistants have restrictive usage limits, with usually only 2,000 code completions per month, we wanted to offer something more generous.”

Since about a year ago, Google has sold Gemini Code Assist to companies. In December, the company said that the AI coding helper would soon work with GitLab, GitHub, and Google Docs third-party tools.

The Enterprise Code Assist tiers add things like audit logs, the ability to connect to other Google Cloud products, and the ability to make private files uniquely yours. 

It’s clear that Google wants to compete with Microsoft and its developer tools company, GitHub. Seven months ago, Google hired Ryan Salva, who used to lead the GitHub Copilot team, to lead the company’s work on developer tools.

The free Individual tier of Gemini Code Assist seems to cover a lot, but it doesn’t have all the advanced business-focused features offered in the Standard and Enterprise versions. You will need to use Google’s paid tiers if you want to track output, connect to Google Cloud services like BigQuery, or customize responses using private code data sources.

The US AI competition among its tech companies has intensified. Companies have been giving their tools for free to compete with others. With this news, people who have been paying Microsoft might move to try the new free tool. This means that Microsoft’s peers will be affected and will also opt to give their tool for free.

Salesforce, Google Cloud sign $2.5 Billion deal

Salesforce and Google have signed a multi-billion dollar agreement to integrate their artificial intelligence and customer relationship management tools.

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Google $GOOGL has signed a $2.5 Billion cloud deal over the next 7 years with Salesforce $CRM who has so far mostly just relied on AWS cloud servers – Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/qdD1yetJIt

— NorthSide 9️⃣🅾️ . MEDIA (@northside90blog) February 24, 2025

The deal, which is worth $2.5 billion over seven years, would connect Google Cloud’s infrastructure to Salesforce’s Data Cloud, AI-powered Agentforce helpers, and CRM software. The companies said the deal would improve how Google Workspace and Salesforce’s CRM and AI solutions work together, which would be good for their business clients.

The CEO of Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian, said that clients want a seamless connection between Salesforce and Google Cloud. This is especially true for AI-driven customer service, data analytics, and automation.

Salesforce now mostly depends on Amazon Web Services for a part of its cloud computing infrastructure.

Interestingly, Salesforce’s CEO Marc Benioff publicly made fun of Microsoft. In an interview, he said that Microsoft has disappointed many customers. He added, “They’ve really done it by delivering a level of hype around their AI solutions.” 

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