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Meta Platforms Inc. launched a new artificial intelligence coding tool in the social media company s latest bid to compete with Microsoft Corp. backed...

From pricing new add-ons outright and raising prices for bundled offerings to simply getting an edge in negotiations, AI opens up a host of pricing strategies.

Meta Platforms made its latest push in the increasingly-hyped generative AI arena with the launch of a new open-source coding tool.

Kombai, a startup that aims to help front-end developers easily convert UI designs to code using AI, has emerged from stealth and announced a $4.5 million Kombai, an Indian startup using AI to build UI designs, has emerged from stealth and raised $4.5 million in a seed funding round led by Stellaris Venture Partners and Foundation Capital.

Kombai, founded by two former Mindtickle senior executives, said it will use the capital to continue investing in research and development, accelerate improvements to its base models, build compatibility with a range of libraries and frameworks used by developer teams and elevate the developer experience around the product.

As more CIOs and devops teams embrace generative AI, QA teams must also adapt their continuous testing practices to keep up.

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It's had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there's over 800 billion lines of COBOL in use on production systems, up from an estimated 220 billion in 2017. For large organizations, it tends to be a complex and costly proposition, given the small number of COBOL experts in the world.

IBM's new product offering, Code Assistant for IBM Z, leverages a generative AI model to translate COBOL code to Java.

As more CIOs and devops teams embrace generative AI, QA teams must also adapt their continuous testing practices to keep up.

Founders can’t rely on a “generative AI gold rush” mentality to secure funding but instead will need to find a sustainable competitive advantage.