Thu, Mar 30, 2023Applications of Generative AI Webinar
In case you missed it, last week we hosted legendary AI Researcher Jim Fan from NVIDIA AI for an incredible discussion on all things Generative AI. During a one-hour conversation with Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, and Michele Catasta, Replit's ML Advisor, the group discussed the recent advancements in AI and the potential impact of multi-modality on the field. Event Recap Jim Fan has worked in AI for a decade and has collaborated with several prominent AI researchers. He highlights the growth of AI from image recognition to large language models like GPT-4. Amjad shares his background in developer tools and his excitement about applying machine learning and statistical approaches to code. 2:50 - The discussion starts with the recent NVIDIA GTC event, with Jim describing NVIDIA's transition from a hardware provider to an enterprise-focused AI provider. He is mainly excited about NVIDIA AI Foundations, which offer customization services that allow enterprises to create unique use cases with multimodal language models. These models will also help incorporate images, videos, and 3D data into AI systems. 5:45 - Michele highlights the importance of multi-modality and how it grants superpowers in communications with computers. Jim envisions a range of possibilities with multi-modal language models, including being able to interact with more natural human input, enhancing note-taking, and automating home decoration plans.
Mon, Mar 27, 2023Replit and Google Cloud Partner to Advance Generative AI for Software Development
Note: Since this announcement, Replit AI has launched a series of new features and updates. For most current information, check out our Replit AI page. Original press release here Under the new partnership, Replit developers will get access to Google Cloud infrastructure, services, and foundation models via Ghostwriter, Replit's software development AI, while Google Cloud and Workspace developers will get access to Replit’s collaborative code editing platform. The collaboration will accelerate the creation of generative AI applications and underscores Google Cloud's commitment to nurturing the most open ecosystem for generative AI. For Replit, already 20 million developers strong, this partnership with Google Cloud is its next move in realizing its mission to empower the next 1 billion software creators.
Mon, Mar 27, 2023Building Ghostwriter Chat
At Replit, we strive to give our users the most powerful programming environment, and what better way is there than giving them an AI pair programmer directly in their workspace? Enter Ghostwriter Chat. Why we built Ghostwriter Chat Many IDEs today are not truly integrated; they lack the tools a developer interacts with throughout the course of their work. With Ghostwriter Chat, our goal is to give developers all the power they need without them ever having to leave the IDE. Gone are the days where you had to search Stack Overflow for an obscure error message, or visit the docs of your favorite package for the millionth time because you forgot what that one argument was called. And since Ghostwriter is built right into your repl, it can use things like file context, chat history, and program output to help you write code, answer questions, or even debug an error. No copying and pasting is required. We started working on Ghostwriter Chat during our Hackweek in January. The project took the first place prize, and we quickly found that we couldn’t live without it. We wanted to be the first to market with an LLM-powered chat application that is native to your editor. We decided to ship it, and did so in a month!
Thu, Mar 23, 2023Building Ghostwriter Chat
Why did we build it? At Replit, we want to give people the most powerful programming environment, and what better way is there than giving people access to a pair programmer directly in their IDE? Enter Ghostwriter Chat. Gone are the days where you had to search Stack Overflow for an obscure error message or visit the docs of your favorite package for the millionth time because you forgot what that one argument was called. Interacting with Ghostwriter should be as easy as interacting with a team member, and it is. Since Ghostwriter Chat can have access to your repl file and context, Ghostwriter can help answer questions about your program without copying and pasting entire code blocks. We started working on Ghostwriter Chat during our Hackweek in January, and we wanted to be the first to market with an LLM chat application native to your editor. From start to finish, we shipped the product in ~6-8 weeks
Wed, Mar 22, 2023Announcing Outbound Data Transfer Limits
Beginning April 7th, Replit will begin enforcing limits on the amount of outbound data that developers can transmit from their Repls to users and external services. Inbound data transfer is free. You can see how much outbound data transfer you've used on your account page. The meter resets at UTC midnight at the start of every month, and the base limit depends on your plan. Free tier developers will receive 10 GiB, Hacker developers 50 GiB, and Pro developers 100 GiB. These plan limits are captured on our pricing page. You may purchase additional outbound data transfer using Cycles or another payment method at $0.10/GiB. You will receive an email and on-plaform notification when you are approaching and when you have reached your limit so you can take action and keep your Repls running.
Sun, Mar 19, 2023An update to cover pages
We're excited to announce that Replit rolled out a big visual update to cover pages last week. With this update, Repl content comes first more than ever before. Everything else is now off to the side, allowing for a cleaner and more focused app experience. Our goal with this update is to improve the user experience for both creators and visitors of Replit projects. Two key improvements come with this update:
Thu, Mar 16, 2023Worldwide Repls, part 3: Firing Up The Engines
At Replit, we operate a cloud-based infrastructure that allows developers to collaborate and create within an all-in-one, integrated development environment. One of the most significant parts of this experience is the latency perceived by the developer when interacting with the workspace. While we can always add resources such as CPU, RAM, and storage on demand, when tackling latency we have to deal with some fundamental physical limits such as the speed of light. This means that you can only do so much for latency by throwing resources at it, and at some point, you just need to bring the server closer to the end user. Given that we want to provide a platform for the next billion software creators, that means that we need to have infrastructure distributed around the world. While we run many of the workspace interactions, such as file editing and browsing, locally on the user's browser, many tasks still depend on communicating with your Repl running on our servers. Examples of such interactions are typing into the shell and getting Language Server Protocol results like catching errors and finding symbol definitions. Because these interactions require communication between the user's browser and the Repl, the only way to reduce latency is to bring the two closer together. In doing that, we also ensure that each bit of the development feedback loop remains quick and efficient, improving the experience for the user. Replit's platform team works hard on improving the infrastructure at the core of Replit. This includes running containers, providing hosting, managing storage, and networking. We recently made some substantial improvements to the infrastructure: dividing our infrastructure into multiple failure domains with clusters, moving our global state management from Redis to an SQL-backed Control Plane, and creating our own load balancer for assigning Repls to machines. These improvements not only improve performance or minimize the surface for inconsistent states to show up, but at the end of the day, they provide an all-around superior experience to the developers on our platform. In this post, we'll give an overview of how Replit's infrastructure is organized, and then dive into detail about how we tackled the next step in improving the experience for a large number of developers: geographic distribution. Clusters: Isolation and Ease of Management
Thu, Mar 9, 2023Get Started with LLMs: AI Camp x Replit Course Now Available
Replit and AI Camp are launching a brand new, 4-hour course, right here on Replit! Unlock the Power of LLMs like GPT with Python, is a four-lesson course that’ll teach you: How to access AI APIs Implementing GPT-2 Trade up to Gradio, Flan-T5 and GPT-3 Build your own auto-summarizer using GPT-3 — all from within a Repl! Gitless and instant, from start to running LLM App in the first 15 minutes.
Mon, Mar 6, 2023BerriAI—The Y Combinator company that brings LLM products to market quickly with Replit
BerriAI is a Y Combinator-backed company that lets users build production-ready ChatGPT apps in under 2 minutes by easily connecting your data to an LLM. With BerriAI you can spin up a ChatGPT app for: Customer support trained on your Knowledge Base and FAQs Answering questions related to your internal knowledge base Analyzing Product data (on mixpanel, CSV files)
Thu, Mar 2, 2023Remote Access to Your Repls via SSH
Last week we announced the Pro plan to speed up your development with Replit's AI tools and an even more powerful Workspace. Today we're expanding all of our paid plans to add the ability to use SSH to remotely access your Repls. How do I get started? If you're subscribed to a paid plan, you'll notice a new "SSH" entry in the Tools section of the Workspace. You can add your SSH keys and start working with your Repl remotely!
Tue, Feb 28, 2023Deploy a Cloudflare Worker from Replit – anytime, anywhere
From large-scale businesses to nonprofits to anyone on the Internet, Cloudflare aims to make developer applications faster, more secure and more reliable. Cloudflare also offers an entire suite of developer products to help build the fundamental pieces of their applications. Every day, thousands of new developers around the world use the Cloudflare Developer Platform offerings from compute to storage to opinionated developer products to deploy everything from serverless functions to full-stack applications. With the Cloudflare Developer Platform’s mission to meet developers where they are, today, we’re excited to announce that you can now deploy Cloudflare Workers (serverless functions) from Replit! Easily deploy a Worker to Cloudflare’s global network and manage your projects anytime, anywhere and from any device. With Replit, you can experience a streamlined onboarding experience and setup with just a few clicks. "We've been hearing from our users that they want a way to deploy to Cloudflare Workers with Replit. We're very excited about this template and to collaborate with Cloudflare to make it easier for developers building on Replit to use whatever technologies they choose.” — Bardia Pourvakil, Head of Developer Relations at Replit What are Cloudflare Workers?
Mon, Feb 20, 2023Replit x Weights & Biases Machine Learning Hackathon Winners
The Replit x Weights & Biases Machine Learning Hackathon was Replit’s very first machine learning-focused hackathon that took place on February 4-11, 2023 with participants selected from all over the world! After applying and being accepted into the hackathon, participants hacked for seven days on their projects, using both custom machine learning models and fine-tuning existing ones, all by combining the power of Weights & Biases and Replit. During the hackathon, builders collaborated and got help from mentors on our Discord (shout out to Morgan and Ayush!), worked through examples and demos from the opening ceremony and our list of resources, and even documented their journeys using W&B Reports. In the end, we gave away over 500,000 Cycles worth of prizes to the best projects created by combining the two technologies. Expert ML engineers from Weights & Biases judged each project to decide the ultimate winners: And the winners are...
Thu, Feb 16, 2023Celebrating 20 Million Replit Developers
Today, we celebrate 20 million developers on Replit. They've created 240M+ Repls, ranging from multiplayer games to production software with the power of real-time collaboration in the cloud and state-of-the-art AI tools. Developers build their businesses on Replit too, from indie hackers to YC-backed startups like Fig, AmpleMarket, and BerriAI to unicorns like Deel. The Replit Story In 2010, I was a young hacker in Amman, Jordan. I didn't have my own computer, but coding was my life. I’d go to internet cafés or borrow computers, and every time I switched machines, I needed to set up a new development environment from scratch. Worse, I couldn’t save my progress or collaborate with my friends. I’d email myself and others my code so we could work on different machines. Around that time, Google Docs came out, and it struck me that nothing like it existed for programming. I became obsessed with an idea: to create a world where I could open a browser tab, start coding, write a runnable program, collaborate with others, and access my work from any other device.
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Announcing Ghostwriter Chat: The first conversational AI programmer
Today, we are announcing the beta release of Ghostwriter Chat. Now with chat, a proactive debugger, and awareness of your project’s context, Ghostwriter becomes the best AI pair programmer in the world. Building Ghostwriter Last fall, we introduced Ghostwriter, Replit’s coding AI, with Complete, Generate, Transform, and Explain Code - coding assistant tools that work with you as you code. Together they made coding faster by automating repetitive tasks and removing the drudgery of writing boilerplate code. That was just the first step towards our master plan to create a fully autonomous pair programmer – one that feels like working with another teammate.
Fri, Feb 10, 2023Altimeter Capital: Supporting builders in AI with Bounties
About Bounties Bounties is a marketplace where anyone can connect with and contract top software creators from the Replit community. These developers are known as Bounty Hunters. The Bounty Hunter community on Replit is global and includes thousands of vetted developers ranging from young prodigy hackers to senior software engineers based in Silicon Valley. About the Bounty Poster