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Zincoder Announced today’s acquisition MachinA developer of reference-air coding assistants with over 100,000 downloads Jetbrens Ecosystem. The acquisition has strengthened the position of the zenkodar in the competitive AI coding auxiliary scenario and expands its reach among other users of the Java developers and the popular development environment of the jetbrain.
Represents a strategic expansion for the deal ZincoderWhich emerged from secret mode six months ago, but quickly established itself as a serious contestant Gitab Copilot And other AI coding equipment.
“At this point, there are three strong coordination products in the market that are production grades: it is US, Cursor, and Windsurf. For small companies, it is getting harder and difficult to compete,” in a special interview with venturebeat about the acquisition of Andrew Filev, Zenkoder, CEO and founder, Zenkoder, CEO and founder, Zenkoder. “Our technical staff includes more than 50 engineers. For some startups, that speed is very difficult to maintain.”
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This acquisition comes in a significant moment in the AI coding auxiliary market. Just last week, reports came out Openai is under discussion to get windsurfAnother AI coding assistant, for approximately $ 3 billion. While Filev maintains that time is coincidence, he accepts that it reflects the dynamics of the broader market.
“I think it’s going to be more in it, and I look forward to it,” Filev said. “This is a huge product surface. You have to support many IDES, you have to integrate with many devops tools, you have to support different parts of the software life cycle. 70-plas, 100-plus programming languages are … There is a lot of work that is very difficult for small companies, which are very difficult to compete in a long time.”
How Zencoder’s jetbrains strategy strategy excludes Microsoft-dependent rivals
One of the major strategic values of receiving Machin It has a strong presence in Jetbrens The ecosystem, especially popular among Java developers and enterprise backand teams.
“Jetbrance Audiences are millions of engineers. They are one of the leading providers for some programming languages and technologies. They are well known in the Java world, which is a large part of the enterprise backnd,” the filev explained.
It gives Zencoder a benefit on competitors Cursor And PawanchakkiWhich is made in the form of thorns Visual studio code And Microsoft’s license sanctions may lead to increasing obstacles.
“Both Karsar and Windsurf are called the Visual Studio forks, and Microsoft recently began to tighten their license sanctions,” the file said. “The support of the versus code for some languages is better than the support that can offer cursor and windsurf, especially for C Sharp, C ++.”
In contrast, Zencoder VS works with the original platforms of Microsoft on the code and integrates with jetbrains ideE directly, which gives it more flexibility in the environment of growth.
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Zencoder distinguishes himself from the contestants what it says “Repo groking“Technology, which analyzes the entire code repository to provide the AI model with better reference, and an error is an invention pipeline that aims to reduce the code errors.
The company claims the impressive performance on the industry’s benchmark, highlighting the filevi since March showing the contestants performing better than the Zencoder:
“But CaneThe best result was around 13%, and we are easily able to 27% that we presented, so we doubled the next best result. We later resumed high results of 31%, “Filev said.
He also noted performance at Openai’s benchmark: “On Self-lunar The best result he published by ‘Diamond’ is the best result of openiI was in the 20s. Our result was low in the 30s, so we defeated openi by 20%on that benchmark. ,
These benchmarks matter because they measure the ability of AI to solve the coding problems of the real world, not only the sentence correct, but functionally produced a flawed code.
Multi-agent Architecture: Zenkoder’s response to quality and safety concerns
An important concern among developers about the AI coding tool is whether they produce safe, high quality codes. According to Filev, Zencoder’s approach, installed software engineering is to build them rather than reinstall them on the best practices.
“I think when we design the AI system, we must definitely borrow from the knowledge of human systems. The software engineering industry was developing rapidly for the last 40 years,” the filev explained. “Sometimes you do not need to strengthen the wheel. Sometimes the best way is to have the best practices and equipment in the market and take advantage of them.”
This philosophy appears in the agental approach of Zencoder, where AI acts as an orchestrator who uses various devices, similarly how human developers use many devices in their workflows.
“We enable AI to use all those devices,” Filev said. “We are actually creating a multi-agentic platform. In our previous release, we not only sent coding agents like some of our contestants, but we also sent unit test agents, and you are going to see more agents than us in that multi-agent interaction platform.”
Coffee Mode and Future: When AI works while developers take a break
One of the most talked about Zencoder is one of the recently launched “coffee mode”, which allows the developers to set to work on tasks such as writing a unit test while taking a break.
“You can really hit that button and hold a coffee, and the agent will do that work yourself,” the file told Venturebeat in a previous interview. “As we like to say in the company, you can see the agent working in waterfall, fire burning and coffee mode forever.”
This approach reflects the vision of AI’s zenkodar as a developer’s partner rather than a replacement.
“We are not trying to replace humans,” Filev insisted. “We are trying to make them progressively and rapidly 10x more productive. The more powerful the AI technology is, the more powerful human beings use it.”
As part of the acquisition, Machinet will transfer its domain and marketplace appearance to the zencoder. Current Mechanette customers will receive guidance on infection in the platform of Zencoder, which offers increased capabilities through its proprietary repo groking technology and AI agents.
The New Developer Landscape: A fast developed ecosystem
Acquisition of Machin By Zincoder The AI coding supports a significant turn in the auxiliary market, as large players absorb innovative small companies with special expertise. For enterprise decision-makers evaluating the AI coding tool, the scenario is shifting from the question whether to adopt these techniques to provide the most strategic benefits.
“Jokes, I think half of the Y Combinator batch is AI startup, and it is impossible to compete with two engineers at this point,” the file said. “You have some real resources, technical resources and market resources to succeed here.”
Such as the Titans of the industry Microsoft And Openi Deepen your investment at this place, such as companies Zincoder Integration is carving specific positions based on flexibility, benchmark performance and engineering philosophy that align with the needs of the enterprise.
For developers who look at the consolidation of this market, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: the future will not be about whether AI writes your code, but AI becomes your favorite pair programmer when you return from that coffee break.
