DeepMind claimed its recently unveiled AlphaCode code generator ranked in the top 54.3% of human participants in programming competitions. But training the model required "hundreds of petaFLOPS ...

ServiceNow Inc., Hugging Face Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today released StarCoder2, the latest version of the trio’s StarCoder family of open-source large language models for code generation.

StarCoder2’s extensive reach is founded on the training of 619 programming languages. The AI code generator comes in three flavors: 3 billion, 7 billion and 15 billion parameters.

Meta announced a new AI code generator, Code Llama 70B. This large language model performs better and handles more data, and it’s available for free.