Bito Launches AI-Powered Coding Assistant Platform with $3.2 Million Funding Round

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Bito, the first company to incorporate ChatGPT and OpenAI, has launched its AI-powered coding assistant platform with a $3.2 million funding round. The platform, which is designed to accelerate the full lifecycle of development tasks for programmers, provides customized results from code generation to testing to code documentation to code search, learning from a user's own codebase. Bito's AI assistant engine is currently in Alpha release, free to use, and built to work with Visual Studio Code, JetBrain IDEs, and the CLI.

Key Takeaways:

  • Bito's AI-powered coding assistant engine is currently in Alpha release, free to use, and built to work with Visual Studio Code, JetBrain IDEs, and the CLI.
  • The platform has received $3.2 million in funding from Eniac Ventures and other investors, including Mohak Shroff, SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn; Sri Shivananda, CTO at PayPal; and Keyur Govande, Chief Architect at Etsy.
  • Bito's users, including engineers from top tech companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google, tend to use the platform nearly 200 times per month, making them 31% more productive.
  • The platform can generate code in any programming language with natural language prompts and create more time and space for developers to focus on solving problems and creating innovative products.
  • Bito's AI assistant can perform a range of tasks, including generating unit tests, explaining code, and improving code performance.
  • The platform has gained support from notable figures in the tech industry, including DJ Patil, former Chief Data Scientist of the United States, and Prashant Mahajan, CTO and Co-founder of Sequoia-funded Privado.

Statistics:

  • 200: The number of times Bito's users tend to log into the platform per month.
  • 31%: The increase in productivity reported by Bito users.
  • $3.2 million: The amount of funding raised by Bito in its latest funding round.
  • 5 petabytes: The amount of daily data handled by Anand Das, Bito's co-founder and former CTO at PubMatic.

Sources:

  • GLOBE NEWSWIRE, "Bito Launches AI-Powered Coding Assistant Platform with $3.2 Million Funding Round"
  • Eniac Ventures, investment data
  • LinkedIn, Mohak Shroff's profile
  • PayPal, Sri Shivananda's profile
  • Etsy, Keyur Govande's profile
  • DJ Patil's LinkedIn profile
  • Privado, Prashant Mahajan's profile