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Kite will today launch a subscription-based coding assistant that tries to help programmers craft stuff quickly and efficiently.
Founder and CEO Adam Smith told
The Register his San Francisco upstart has spent more than six years developing a product that is, essentially, autocomplete for source code. Over that time, Kite has amassed about 250,000 monthly active users for its free version known as Kite Free, which integrates with Visual Studio Code, Atom, Sublime, Vim, and others, and supports JavaScript and Python.
Now, it’s touting a premium flavor called Kite Pro that costs $19.90 per month, or $16.60 a month if you’re willing to fork out for a whole year.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Kite, a leading AI-powered coding assistant that helps programmers code faster with Multi-Line Completions, today announced the availability of Kite Team Server. Kite Team Server is the industry s first enterprise-ready self-hosted Machine Learning (ML) engine for four token autocomplete technology. Today s product release builds on the existing UI of Kite Free, which 400,000 developers use to code 18% faster each month.
Kite Team Server uses the latest developments in machine learning to “custom-train” ML models, providing personalized code completions based on each company’s codebase. As a startup that is growing its team of developers, it is paramount that we maximize efficiency when it comes to code completion, said Aasim Sani, Co-Founder and COO at Orai. Once our engineering team started using Kite we became much more productive and our time to market on product development has increased tremendously.