Startup new wants to help the developers create special coding assistants, contextual that can connect to the model and integrate with the development.
Department of June 2023 by CEO Ty dunn and CTO HAVE BEEN (pictured above), and alum alum Continue had a wife about 23,000 stars on GitHub and 11,000 Discord Community Members over the past few years. To build this momentum, continues to announce version 1.0 products, supported by fundraised $ 3 million funds.
Explosion of Assistant Coding
Constantly launched to come in the middle The blast of assistant ai ai like GitHub copilot and Google Gemini Aid Codeunused Young up eg Codeium and Cursorthat has received money from the investors.
Continue, for the part, for which one is “Assistant code Oven-Source Ai Code code is valuable” that can connect with the model and allows the team to add your own context by jira or confluence.
With models and context, developers can create autocomplete experience and custom direct conversations directly in coding environments. AutocompleteFor example, provides in-line code suggestions while entering, while Chat Allows users to ask questions about specific code. The edit Functions may allow users to edit the code by reflecting what you want.
Product products from the announcement currently includes the extension of the open source of the “major” continuously continuously for code vs and Jetbrains.
“This signal is for the company as a stable project you can bet and build,” said Dunn tells the techcrroch in the interview.
Itself, continues to render new hubThe one who can be likened like a docker hub, GitHub, or Faces the hug – a place for developers create and showing the registration to establish a variety of buildings made from.
When launched, hub includes the pre-built Assistant coding aiAlso “block” from verified partner Mistrals and Codastral modelsClaude 3.5 sonnet from anticropicand DeepSeeek-R1 from OllamaSee rankings-. However, the developers or developers of an individual who can contribute block and assistant to the hub.
Block here may mean Model, So you specify ai AI model used and where; Rules to manage AI Assistant; context to establish an external context provider (eg jira or confluence); landmark to snack the prewritten model to get exputy instructions; docs to determine the documentation site (eg angles or reactions); Datathat allow the developer sending data development to the destination specified for analytical purpose; or The MCP serverDetermines the way the standard building and share the tool for the language models.
“Contribution Culture”
The idea behind this new HUB is that the majority of users do not require deep customization – they just have to be small tweaks for assistants or coding blades or blocks in the hub.
This is the earnest question: What is the incentive to make customization and share with the world? As it turns out, exactly what driving the open source community is in another. Many launch partners are the company that makes the underlying tool or model (eg Maratal and an anthropropic and a new hub that is suitable to give you curved.
In addition, ethos “open source” are in the heart of what they continue to do. So, if someone makes customization to use your work, then why not only share a big community? Finally, holding your own position as the antitesis of “black boxes” “Assistant AI.
“This is a center for all ecosystems to work together and work together,” said Dunn. “But all people build an assistant AI closed code that is closed on its own, what if we have an open architecture where all we can work together to make the building blocks people should build the experience for yourself?”
This is what dunn to make “the contribution culture,” where the developers suggested experiment and make their own customizations when they produce all people.
“By continuing 1.0, we enable this contribution to the developer to create and show assistant AI ai code specifically,” said Dunn. “This registry will be a place invention inside and among the organizations, which will grow in the Evolution block and open, an enhanced developer tool.”
Then there is an aspect of data control. On the “more common” platform, the significant vendor can apply for significant values of observing the developers of size, and feed data make this decision to increase everyone. This type of activity has created a controversy for people who love Githubub Coupilot, which accused Bump to work hard free source of software developer for its own benefits.
By continuing, the idea is a company has more control over what happened to the data – he can show a lot or as you like.
“If you are using continued, you must keep your data,” says Dunn. “As an organization, you can create all the developers for all the developers in one place. Unable to strategy, the assistant saas box, where the strategy is to take data and use data to add to everyone.”
Business model
This is still early days to continue, but Introduction to say that many businesses are well-known with the development of the development – Ions(Also an early customer), as well as alcatel and morningstar.
When businesses are too big to focus, Dunn says they continue to target the target of all shapes and sizes, from freelancer and small teams through the company’s gamut. This point is for how much money does – the new HUB exists in a free-shaped ship, but the organization requires a larger control of the data that can be paid to access the administration, government, and security tool.
“There are many interests from larger organizations, but we can also see all for individual developers who only customization for themselves. In the case, I feel solo tier will be more enough,” said Dunn. “But as a small freelancer or team starts to grow, and it takes several government, it can be customers.”
Free solo rates with three “visian” level. Developer contributions can be stored privately, internal indicated as part of the team, or be made public. Indeed, solo tier can be used technical in the team setup; Just don’t need some features that are usually required. “Separate team added Smarts” Multi-Player “Additional” Multi-Player for a mix, with admin control to manage all of blocks and assistants – who have access to anything.
Sign Enterprise, Meanwhile, creating data options, security, and government uphirect with greater granular control about blocks, models, versions, and versions are used.
“Admin can also arrange security about confidence, where the data is, and receive audit log to anyone, what, anywhere and where the use is covered.
Continue before purple $ 2.1 million after graduating from combination y in the end of 2023, and now produces $ 3 million in Safes (Foreign with delayed equity allocation) led by the developer VC Firm Firm, HeavybitSee rankings-.
Dunn says a lot of fresh money will be to the software engineering salaries, and the plan “is at least one” double.
“We use open sources as approach distribution, and becoming so low, we do not have to capitalize almost all other competitors,” said Dunn.
