Google reportedly offers Gemini AI coding assistance and many other tools and workspaces to developers with its new Google Developer Program.

The Google Developer Program, announced on June 3, is also designed to let developers discover Google-sponsored developer communities. Key program features include AI developer support, available via a simple chat interface on numerous Google developer-facing websites such as Google for Developers, Firebase, and Google Cloud.

Gemini-powered developer support lets developers learn more about documentation pages, ask Google tool-related questions, produce example code, and troubleshoot difficulties.

Developers may also obtain natural language explanations of code snippets throughout the documentation, test the functionality of Google APIs without coding, discover AI-powered solutions to inquiries in the search box, and learn more about Google for Developers tools and documentation. 

The program's developers may access up to five workspaces in the Project IDX cloud IDE, an AI-assisted, cloud-based workspace for full-stack, multi-platform application development.

Developers who join the Google Cloud Innovators program will also receive free interactive lab credits for the Google Cloud Skills Boost learning program, which includes training, skill development, and access to Google Cloud environments.

Members of the Google Developer initiative can also apply to Google-sponsored groups like the Cloud Innovators initiative.

The Google Developer Program is projected to grow in the coming months, providing developers with more tools and resources to help them along their development path and new ways to interact with the Google developer community.

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Gemini AI Coding Expansion

Google continues to provide Gemini AI to many developer groups, most notably on April 9, when Gemini Pro was integrated into Android Studio's coding environment.

The expansion will see Gemini deployed to Android Studio in over 180 countries, focusing on the Android Studio Jellyfish version.

The newly integrated Gemini bot, like the Studio Bot, is available within the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), enabling developers to request coding assistance.

According to Google, developers may anticipate higher-quality answers in various coding areas, including code completion, debugging, resource discovery, and documentation writing.

Google's Gemini 1.5

Google highlighted their continued efforts to improve AI capabilities, emphasizing safety and efficiency. Gemini 1.5 marks a considerable step forward, incorporating research and technical advancements throughout foundation model development and infrastructure. 

Notably, this includes increased efficiency in training and serving, which was achieved by implementing a new Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture.

The release of Gemini 1.5 Pro, a mid-size multimodal device, provides equivalent performance to its predecessor, 1.0 Ultra while offering an experimental long-context understanding function. 

This functionality allows for a regular context window of 128,000 tokens, with a limited number of developers and corporate clients testing it with an extended context window of nearly a million tokens via Vertex AI and AI Studio in a private preview.

As Google continues to push out the entire 1 million token context window, efforts are being made to minimize latency, decrease computing needs, and improve overall user experience.  

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