Google Colab gets new AI-powered coding chatbot

Google is expanding Bard’s AI coding capabilities to Google Colab, its cloud-based Python development environment.

Colab is getting a chatbot designed specifically to assist with coding, as well as the ability to generate code using natural language. Google said that these features are made possible through Codey, a generative AI model that focuses on coding and is based on PaLM 2.

During its initial phase, Codey models within Colab will only be accessible to users in the US.