GitHub, a platform for developers to create, store, manage, and share their code, has announced the rapid growth of Indian developers. The country is now the fastest-growing developer population on the planet, with 5.2 billion projects and 108 million new repositories created in 2024. India's developers are increasingly using AI to build AI, with the country ranking just below the …
February 14, 2024 03:46 pm | Updated 03:46 pm IST On a mission to build open-source language models, Meta AI released an update to its range of Code Llama models on January 29. On to the HumanEval benchmark, a dataset of 164 programming problems that measure the functional correctness and logic of code generation models, Code Llama 70B scores 65.2, …
Twitter has sent a copyright infringement notice to GitHub after admitting that parts of its source code were leaked on the open-source coding platform, reports The New York Times. In a tweet earlier this month, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that the company will open source all code used for recommending tweets on March 31. Musk tweeted: "Twitter will open …
GitHub has previewed a new artificial intelligence tool that can give suggestions to people while coding and help them write better code with less work. “It helps you quickly discover alternative ways to solve problems, write tests, and explore new APIs without having to tediously tailor a search for answers on the internet,” GitHub CEO Nat Friedman said in a …
Google’s Chromium project and Android operating system too have urged developers to move away from terms like ‘blacklist’ and ‘whitelist’. Microsoft’s GitHub, that provides hosting for software development is working towards removing coding terms like ‘master’ and ‘slave’ in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. For what it’s worth, I’m *super* happy to rename the default branch structure of …