| JetBrains Adds Claude Support To AI Assistant |
| Written by Kay Ewbank | |||
| Wednesday, 12 February 2025 | |||
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JetBrains has added support for Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 and Haiku 3.5, OpenAI's o1, o1-mini, and o3-mini models to its AI-powered coding tool, AI Assistant, along with local LLM support via LM Studio, allowing users to connect AI chat to locally hosted models. The AI Assistant is an upgrade to an earlier profiling tool, with extra features including an integrated AI chat, code explanations, automated documentation generation, name suggestion, and commit message generation.
AI Assistant chooses the most optimal model for each task. The JetBrains AI service behind the tool connects users to different LLMs and providers to use the best-performing and most cost-efficient models. When AI Assistant was released JetBrains said that the architecture means new future models can be used without the need for users to change AI providers, and the support for the new models is due to this. This latest update adds support for the most recent Claude models – Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku - provisioned in Amazon Bedrock. The use of Bedrock for provisioning means the models are available to users of AI Assistant globally thanks to Amazon Bedrock's coverage across 17 regions worldwide. JetBrains says this ensures consistent access to AI services while adhering to data residency requirements and complying with local regulations. They also highlight the cross-region inferencing that means workloads are automatically distributed during high traffic, minimizing latency and ensuring smooth operation even under heavy demand. Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the first to be released in the 3.5 line, and Anthropic says it sets new industry benchmarks for graduate-level reasoning (GPQA), undergraduate-level knowledge (MMLU), and coding proficiency (HumanEval). It shows marked improvement in grasping nuance, humor, and complex instructions. The addition of support for OpenAI's o3-mini and o1-mini models is aimed at users who want faster and more cost-efficient reasoning capabilities. These compact OpenAI models offer faster processing than o1 and are tailored for coding, scientific, and mathematical tasks. The other new option is the ability to connect AI chat to locally hosted models using LM Studio. The LM Studio platform provides an interface for managing and running AI models on your local machine, and JetBrains says this increases data privacy and allows you to customize your environment to meet specific requirements. AI Assistant is available inside JetBrains IDEs and can generate code for any request, suggest a fix for a particular problem or refactor a function. On average, developers report saving up to 8 hours per week with JetBrains AI Assistant.
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