Introducing IBM Granite.Code

This post introduces IBM Granite.Code, an AI coding companion for VS Code powered by the Granite 8b code LLM. It highlights features such as context-aware code generation, explanation, documentation, translation, and unit test generation. The post emphasizes the 128K context window and training on 116 languages, with specific support for popular languages. It also mentions the self-hosting option via Ollama and demonstrates key features through animated GIFs.