Startup Unveils New AI Code Chatbot For Developers

The startup that created the first AI assistant for software developers has unveiled the beta version of its latest innovation: an AI code chatbot. 

Tabnine was founded in 2017 by Canadian student Jacob Jackson and acquired by Israeli software development company Codota in 2019. The company is now headquartered in Tel Aviv in central Israel. 

Tabnine Chat is an AI code chatbot that can generate code and answer questions in the same integrated development environment (IDE). 

The chatbot can help developers understand complex code and build applications more easily. It can also identify coding issues, suggest areas of improvement and optimization, and be used to enforce standardized coding practices. 

Tabnine Chat can also be used to resolve existing security issues by allowing organizations to run isolated code and permissive code only, so the code cannot be accessed by outside sources. 

“As the tools developers use continue to rapidly evolve, organizations must ensure the solutions their teams rely on not only allow them to be more productive, but operate in a secure way,” said Eran Yahav, CTO of Tabnine.

“Innovation at speed requires trust in the tools developers use, especially in enterprises. With Tabnine Chat we continue our commitment to delivering ethical and secure AI, and enabling its use throughout the software development lifecycle,” Yahav said.