Google Partners With AI Startup Replit To Take on Microsoft's GitHub

Alphabet's Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software from startup Replit that helps computer programmers write code, a bid to compete with a similar product from Microsoft's GitHub and OpenAI. From a report: Replit's Ghostwriter, which has 20 million users, will rely on Google's language-generation AI to improve its ability to suggest blocks of code, complete programs and answer developer questions. Google Cloud Vice President June Yang