Amazon's AI offerings expand with free access to CodeWhisperer and new generative AI tools.

Amazon is offering its AI-powered coding assistant CodeWhisperer for free to individual developers, undercutting the pricing of its Microsoft-made rival. CodeWhisperer generates lines of code based on a text-based prompt and automatically filters out biased or unfair suggestions. It also comes with security scanning features that can identify vulnerabilities within a developer's code. CodeWhisperer supports several languages and provides real-time recommendations to developers as they write code or comments in their IDE, increasing productivity by 57%.