The company also launched a command-line tool based on Gemini Code, optimized for agentic coding and compatible with popular developer tools.

Coder, an open-source artificial intelligence model for software development that the Chinese e-commerce giant described as its most advanced coding tool to date.

Coder, strengthens the case that open-source models are now capable of matching proprietary AI systems, at least when it comes to software engineering tasks. Featuring a 480B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts design and support for extended context windows,