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AI coding assistant Supermaven raises cash from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders
Sep 17, 2024
Jacob Jackson, co-founder of Tab9 and Supermaven, shares insights from his journey in AI development. He discusses how Supermaven, an AI coding assistant, secured $12 million in funding from notable figures at OpenAI and Perplexity. The conversation dives into the evolution of AI in developer tools, highlighting the ethical implications and the transformative power of advanced models like Babel. Jackson emphasizes the importance of making coding more efficient for developers in an ever-evolving tech landscape.
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- Supermaven raised $12 million to enhance its AI coding assistant capabilities, leveraging a proprietary AI model named Babel for improved development workflows.
- The platform addresses ethical concerns by ensuring customer data is not used for model training, focusing instead on publicly available code for legal safety.
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The Rise of SuperMaven in AI Coding Tools
SuperMaven is an AI coding platform founded by Jacob Jackson, who previously co-founded Tab9. The platform aims to enhance developer workflows by leveraging a proprietary AI model named Babel, which boasts a one million token context window, allowing it to process extensive code efficiently. This larger context helps reduce mistakes, known as hallucinations, that can occur when generating code, differentiating it from competitors like Magix and Google's CodeAssist. With over 35,000 developers already using SuperMaven, the platform has seen significant growth and recently reached an annual recurring revenue of $1 million since its launch in February.
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