Replit Blog
Apr 25, 2023Raising $97.4M at $1.16B Valuation to Expand our Cloud Services and Lead in AI Development
Note: The press release for our funding announcement can be found below. You can find the original press release here. Replit is Building the Best Cloud and AI Development Experience for Software Creators Replit, the world's fastest-growing developer platform and creator of Ghostwriter, the generative AI for software development, announced the close of its $97.4 million financing round at a $1.16 billion post-money valuation. Replit will use the new funds to innovate on its core development experience, expand its cloud services for developers, and drive innovation in AI and LLMs through Ghostwriter. Investor Participation and Funding Details
Apr 11, 2023Replit Deployments - the fastest way from idea → production
After a 5 year hosting beta, we're ready to deploy. Introducing Replit Deployments Today we’re releasing Replit Deployments, the fastest way to go from idea to production in any language. It’s a ground up rebuild of our application hosting infrastructure. Here’s a list of features we’re releasing today: Your hosted VM will rarely restart, keeping your app running and stable. You’re Always On by default. No need to run pingers or pay extra. Say goodbye to the “Repl Waking” screen because your VM doesn’t go to sleep. Isolated VM resources for your app will give you improved security and performance.
Apr 10, 2023Building the #1 LLM Comparison Tool with Bounties - nat.dev
"Replit bounties are a great way to find talented developers for adventures!" Nat Friedman / former CEO of GitHub About the Bounty Posters Nat Friedman is the former CEO of GitHub. He previously co-founded Xamarin, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. Before GitHub, Nat held several leadership positions at Microsoft, including Corporate Vice President of Developer Services. Nat is most known for his contributions to open-source projects, most recently nat.dev and the Vesuvius Challenge. Matt Huang and Alexandr Wang also contributed to this Bounty reward.
Apr 5, 2023Replit + Chroma: AI for the next billion software creators
Guest post by Chroma Today we’re announcing the Chroma template for Replit, the next step towards bringing the power of AI application development to the next billion software creators. With the Chroma template, developers can easily create AI applications with state and memory. Want to make ChatGPT for your email? Or chat to your textbooks while you study? Want LLMs to know about the latest news stories? Together with Replit, Chroma makes all that and more easy.
Apr 4, 2023Replit Bounties: The Best Place to Build and Launch MVPs
"If I had turnkey access to this liquid, global talent pool in previous product roles, it would have been amazing for developing prototypes and taking ideas from 0 to 1." Christian Ulstrup / founder and CEO of GSD @ Work About the Bounty Poster Christian Ulstrup is the founder and CEO of GSD @ Work, a strategic consulting firm that advises pre-Series C startups and business leaders on strategy, product development, and GTM motion. Christian’s prior experience consists of all things product, from being a startup founder to leading cross-functional product teams at venture-backed medical device tech startups and larger companies like Red Bull.
Mar 30, 2023Applications of Generative AI Webinar
In case you missed it, last week we hosted legendary AI Researcher Jim Fan from NVIDIA AI for an incredible discussion on all things Generative AI. During a one-hour conversation with Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, and Michele Catasta, Replit's ML Advisor, the group discussed the recent advancements in AI and the potential impact of multi-modality on the field. Event Recap Jim Fan has worked in AI for a decade and has collaborated with several prominent AI researchers. He highlights the growth of AI from image recognition to large language models like GPT-4. Amjad shares his background in developer tools and his excitement about applying machine learning and statistical approaches to code. 2:50 - The discussion starts with the recent NVIDIA GTC event, with Jim describing NVIDIA's transition from a hardware provider to an enterprise-focused AI provider. He is mainly excited about NVIDIA AI Foundations, which offer customization services that allow enterprises to create unique use cases with multimodal language models. These models will also help incorporate images, videos, and 3D data into AI systems. 5:45 - Michele highlights the importance of multi-modality and how it grants superpowers in communications with computers. Jim envisions a range of possibilities with multi-modal language models, including being able to interact with more natural human input, enhancing note-taking, and automating home decoration plans.
Mar 27, 2023Replit and Google Cloud Partner to Advance Generative AI for Software Development
Note: Since this announcement, Replit AI has launched a series of new features and updates. For most current information, check out our Replit AI page. Original press release here Under the new partnership, Replit developers will get access to Google Cloud infrastructure, services, and foundation models via Ghostwriter, Replit's software development AI, while Google Cloud and Workspace developers will get access to Replit’s collaborative code editing platform. The collaboration will accelerate the creation of generative AI applications and underscores Google Cloud's commitment to nurturing the most open ecosystem for generative AI. For Replit, already 20 million developers strong, this partnership with Google Cloud is its next move in realizing its mission to empower the next 1 billion software creators.
Mar 27, 2023Building Ghostwriter Chat
At Replit, we strive to give our users the most powerful programming environment, and what better way is there than giving them an AI pair programmer directly in their workspace? Enter Ghostwriter Chat. Why we built Ghostwriter Chat Many IDEs today are not truly integrated; they lack the tools a developer interacts with throughout the course of their work. With Ghostwriter Chat, our goal is to give developers all the power they need without them ever having to leave the IDE. Gone are the days where you had to search Stack Overflow for an obscure error message, or visit the docs of your favorite package for the millionth time because you forgot what that one argument was called. And since Ghostwriter is built right into your repl, it can use things like file context, chat history, and program output to help you write code, answer questions, or even debug an error. No copying and pasting is required. We started working on Ghostwriter Chat during our Hackweek in January. The project took the first place prize, and we quickly found that we couldn’t live without it. We wanted to be the first to market with an LLM-powered chat application that is native to your editor. We decided to ship it, and did so in a month!
Mar 23, 2023Building Ghostwriter Chat
Why did we build it? At Replit, we want to give people the most powerful programming environment, and what better way is there than giving people access to a pair programmer directly in their IDE? Enter Ghostwriter Chat. Gone are the days where you had to search Stack Overflow for an obscure error message or visit the docs of your favorite package for the millionth time because you forgot what that one argument was called. Interacting with Ghostwriter should be as easy as interacting with a team member, and it is. Since Ghostwriter Chat can have access to your repl file and context, Ghostwriter can help answer questions about your program without copying and pasting entire code blocks. We started working on Ghostwriter Chat during our Hackweek in January, and we wanted to be the first to market with an LLM chat application native to your editor. From start to finish, we shipped the product in ~6-8 weeks
Mar 19, 2023An update to cover pages
We're excited to announce that Replit rolled out a big visual update to cover pages last week. With this update, Repl content comes first more than ever before. Everything else is now off to the side, allowing for a cleaner and more focused app experience. Our goal with this update is to improve the user experience for both creators and visitors of Replit projects. Two key improvements come with this update:
Mar 9, 2023Get Started with LLMs: AI Camp x Replit Course Now Available
Replit and AI Camp are launching a brand new, 4-hour course, right here on Replit! Unlock the Power of LLMs like GPT with Python, is a four-lesson course that’ll teach you: How to access AI APIs Implementing GPT-2 Trade up to Gradio, Flan-T5 and GPT-3 Build your own auto-summarizer using GPT-3 — all from within a Repl! Gitless and instant, from start to running LLM App in the first 15 minutes.
Mar 6, 2023BerriAI—The Y Combinator company that brings LLM products to market quickly with Replit
BerriAI is a Y Combinator-backed company that lets users build production-ready ChatGPT apps in under 2 minutes by easily connecting your data to an LLM. With BerriAI you can spin up a ChatGPT app for: Customer support trained on your Knowledge Base and FAQs Answering questions related to your internal knowledge base Analyzing Product data (on mixpanel, CSV files)
Feb 28, 2023Deploy a Cloudflare Worker from Replit – anytime, anywhere
From large-scale businesses to nonprofits to anyone on the Internet, Cloudflare aims to make developer applications faster, more secure and more reliable. Cloudflare also offers an entire suite of developer products to help build the fundamental pieces of their applications. Every day, thousands of new developers around the world use the Cloudflare Developer Platform offerings from compute to storage to opinionated developer products to deploy everything from serverless functions to full-stack applications. With the Cloudflare Developer Platform’s mission to meet developers where they are, today, we’re excited to announce that you can now deploy Cloudflare Workers (serverless functions) from Replit! Easily deploy a Worker to Cloudflare’s global network and manage your projects anytime, anywhere and from any device. With Replit, you can experience a streamlined onboarding experience and setup with just a few clicks. "We've been hearing from our users that they want a way to deploy to Cloudflare Workers with Replit. We're very excited about this template and to collaborate with Cloudflare to make it easier for developers building on Replit to use whatever technologies they choose.” — Bardia Pourvakil, Head of Developer Relations at Replit What are Cloudflare Workers?
Feb 16, 2023Celebrating 20 Million Replit Developers
Today, we celebrate 20 million developers on Replit. They've created 240M+ Repls, ranging from multiplayer games to production software with the power of real-time collaboration in the cloud and state-of-the-art AI tools. Developers build their businesses on Replit too, from indie hackers to YC-backed startups like Fig, AmpleMarket, and BerriAI to unicorns like Deel. The Replit Story In 2010, I was a young hacker in Amman, Jordan. I didn't have my own computer, but coding was my life. I’d go to internet cafés or borrow computers, and every time I switched machines, I needed to set up a new development environment from scratch. Worse, I couldn’t save my progress or collaborate with my friends. I’d email myself and others my code so we could work on different machines. Around that time, Google Docs came out, and it struck me that nothing like it existed for programming. I became obsessed with an idea: to create a world where I could open a browser tab, start coding, write a runnable program, collaborate with others, and access my work from any other device.
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Announcing Ghostwriter Chat: The first conversational AI programmer
Today, we are announcing the beta release of Ghostwriter Chat. Now with chat, a proactive debugger, and awareness of your project’s context, Ghostwriter becomes the best AI pair programmer in the world. Building Ghostwriter Last fall, we introduced Ghostwriter, Replit’s coding AI, with Complete, Generate, Transform, and Explain Code - coding assistant tools that work with you as you code. Together they made coding faster by automating repetitive tasks and removing the drudgery of writing boilerplate code. That was just the first step towards our master plan to create a fully autonomous pair programmer – one that feels like working with another teammate.