The watsonx Code Assistant uses the newly announced Granite 3.0 models to provide general-purpose coding assistance across multiple programming languages.
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When IBM announced in May 2023 that its generative artificial intelligence tools were in use by its AI assistant, watsonx, to help enterprises modernize their mainframe applications by translating COBOL code into Java, it was just the beginning of its efforts to leverage generative AI for developers.
The company has taken another leap forward with the announcement on Monday of the watsonx Code Assistant for general purpose coding, based on the company’s newly announced foundation model, Granite 3.0.
When IBM unveiled Granite in September 2023, it touted it as AI for business that applies generative AI to both language and code.
Monday’s announcement at the IBM TechXchange conferencein Las Vegas, Nevada, provides users with seven new models: Granite-3.0-8B-Instruct and Granite-3.0-2B-Instruct language models; Granite-Guardian-3.0-8B and Granite-Guardian-3.0-2B, trained to detect jailbreaking, bias, violence, profanity, sexual content, and unethical …