What is StarCoder?

Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model

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Hey Everyone,

So covering the intersection of coding and LLMs, we shouldn’t neglect StarCoder. AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems along the lines of GitHub’s Copilot, Google PaLM and others.

Let’s take a closer look. The complete view of StarCoder is fairly interesting and I have not seen much coverage about it on social media.