Subj : Google is working on a Microsoft Copilot competitor for Chrome
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Aug 09 2023 13:30:03

Google is working on a Microsoft Copilot competitor for Chrome

Date:
Wed, 09 Aug 2023 12:13:40 +0000

Description:
Google Project IDX wants to use AI to help you create multiplatform apps from 
a browser.

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Google has unveilled a new artificial intelligence browser -based development 
environment for building full-stack applications in light of how difficult it 
can be getting an app from zero to production. 

Citing Googles work on facilitating multiplatform app development, including 
Angular, Flutter, Google Cloud, and Firebase, the team of UX workers said: it 
feels like theres even more we can do to make the entire multiplatform app 
development workflow faster and more frictionless. 

 Project IDX , which is now a few months in the making, is built on Google 
Cloud and powered by Codey, a text-to-code foundation model built on PaLM 2. 
Project IDX 

While Project IDX is far from being a fully functional product, the team said 
it decided to release information now in order to understand what developers 
want from the project. Read more 

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Getting started should be easy, especially given that developers will be able 
to import existing projects from GitHub. Frameworks including Angular, 
Flutter, Next.js, React, Svelte, and Vue will all be supported out of the 
box, as will the JavaScript and Dart programming languages. The team has 
already committed to adding Python and Go at a later stage, too. 

Built-in previews will help developers to understand how their app optimizes 
to different platforms, but from launch, only a web preview will be enabled. 
A browser-based fully-configured Android emulator and an embedded iOS 
simulator are said to be coming soon. 

Googles workers who are behind Project IDX say that it will come with AI 
tools like smart code completion, an assistive chatbot, and contextual code 
actions like add comments and explain this code, but its very early days and 
the AI capabilities are only set to improve. 

In terms of when the service will become available, chances are were 
currently too far away to know, but in the meantime, Google is asking for 
feedback and requests to help build a service for everyone. Check out the 
best IDEs for Python



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-is-working-on-a-microsoft-copilot-competi
tor-for-chrome


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