Stability AI Introduces Stable Code 3B for Co-Generation

This chapter explores the introduction of Stability AI's Stable Code 3B, a commercially licensed model with 3 billion parameters that focuses on code completion for software development. It discusses its unique capability to run locally on laptops without dedicated GPUs and its competition with larger models like Meta's code, Lambda 7B. The chapter also highlights Stability AI's trend towards smaller models, starting with Stable LM Zephyr in 2023.