Introducing IBM Granite.Code

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Introduces IBM Granite.Code, a new AI coding companion extension for VS Code. Highlights its use of the Granite 8b code LLM with a 128K context window, training on 116 languages. Details AI-powered capabilities including context-aware code generation, explanation, documentation, translation, and unit test generation. Mentions self-hosting with Ollama and provides visual examples of its features in action.