Summary

  • Qodo, formerly Codium, an AI-driven code quality platform, has unveiled Qodo-Embed-1-1.5B, an open-source code embedding tool, which it claims outperforms larger models, including those from OpenAI and Salesforce, while maintaining a smaller footprint and efficiency.
  • Qodo’s tool is purported to deliver state-of-the-art performance in code retrieval and search and is optimised for the 10 most popular programming languages, with plans to expand language support and integration with other development tools in future iterations.
  • The model is available on Hugging Face, Nvidia’s NIM platform, and AWS SageMaker JumpStart to help enterprises deploy and integrate it.
  • The introduction of Qodo-Embed-1-1.5B is significant as AI-powered coding tools evolve from a focus on code generation to code understanding, retrieval, and quality assurance.

By Carl Franzen

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