---
title: "Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-launches-a-github-copilot-competitor-ghyr9lvyj
source_url: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/google-launches-a-github-copilot-competitor/
type: article
source: "TechCrunch"
published: 2023-05-10T18:04:49.056Z
updated: 2023-08-12T02:25:43.493Z
tags: ["ai", "gcp", "general-programming", "github", "google", "google-io", "machine-learning", "tools"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 112
comments: 23
language: en
---

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# Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor

**[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 112 upvotes · 23 comments

## Summary

Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding and Google Cloud services. At the core of virtually all of these new code completion and code generation tools is Codey. Google Cloud will use Codey to help developers manage all of their services on Google Cloud.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@qorbani** · 8 upvotes

> I remember back in 90s everyone fighting to gain marketshare for Search. Interesting to see similar trends on AI assistants 🤔

**@luci02** · 4 upvotes

> Codewhisperer is free and better alternative to copilot.
> Try it out.

**@mugiwara** · 3 upvotes

> LinkedIn, medium, daily dev everywhere it’s AI here, AI there. It’s gotten to a point of annoyance ngl.

**@kyoukhana** · 1 upvotes

> How do we get started using Google's Copilot competitor

**@titani0us** · 1 upvotes

> I feel like this is a race to decide who is going to be iPod and who is going to be Zune.

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