Stack Overflow, the favored question-and-answer portal for builders, has partnered with Google’s cloud computing arm to develop an API that can give Google’s Gemini AI mannequin entry to Stack Overflow’s information base.
Dubbed the Overflow API, the brand new providing will inform Gemini’s coding help capabilities for Google Cloud, delivered to builders through the Google Cloud Console. The options made by Gemini will cite Stack Overflow sources, the businesses stated in a press release.
The Overflow API, which is at present within the growth part, shall be previewed at Google’s upcoming Cloud Subsequent convention in April, adopted by availability inside the first half of 2024.
Along with benefiting Google by serving to Gemini be taught extra about coding from Stack Overflow’s information base, the partnership will assist Stack Overflow preserve its attain to builders at a time when code era assistants, underpinned by massive language fashions (LLMs), are altering builders’ conduct round researching code.
Stack Overflow itself has been engaged on including generative AI capabilities to its platform through the OverflowAI providing, which is prone to be built-in into platforms akin to Groups and Slack.
The partnership will even see Google working with the corporate so as to add to the AI capabilities of OverflowAI.
Final October, Stack Overflow laid off almost a 3rd of its workforce within the wake of rising stress from generative AI-based coding assistants. Previous to that the corporate had let go of 58 staffers working as UX designers, human useful resource professionals, product designers, and senior software program builders.
Though Google is the launch associate for the Overflow API, the corporate is open to working with extra corporations who need to practice their LLMs on its information base and content material.
The sharing of information for mannequin coaching may develop into a brand new stream of income for the corporate or present it leverage to make sure that it’s current on platforms wherever builders frequent.
Google and Stack Overflow haven’t disclosed the monetary phrases of the partnership.
Google Cloud rivals AWS and Microsoft have their very own code era assistants within the type of Amazon CodeWhisperer and GitHub Copilot.
Different LLMs, although open supply, that supply code era capabilities embrace the likes of StarCoder2 and Code Llama.
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