Codeium founders Douglas Chen and Varun Mohan

Generative AI can create poems, emails or artwork, but one of its most promising uses is its ability to write code.

Some companies, like Microsoft-owned Github, offer “copilots” that use AI to make coding suggestions, similar to autocomplete. Other companies, like Cognition or Magic, specialize in “agents” designed to carry out an entire coding project from start to finish. On Wednesday, Codeium, a buzzy AI startup that already makes its own copilot, unveiled a new tool called Windsurf, which provides a little bit of both.

The idea is to provide advanced automation strategically, while still keeping the developer in the driver seat. The goal is that by........

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