Continue Newsletter: February 2024 Updates

Continue Updates
š New context providers: @directory uses RAG to find relevant files, @problems shows the LLM any lint warnings in the open file, and @docs crawls and indexes docs pages
š Local codebase embeddings are back with support for multiple providers of embeddings, including transformers.js, OpenAI, Ollama, and Together embeddings
š Improved codebase indexing now stays up-to-date continuously, even when you change branches, and supports Remote SSH and Dev Containers
šŖ“ Image support! Continue now lets you drag and drop images into the chat when using a compatible model (e.g. gpt-4-vision-preview or llava)
Code x AI Updates
āļø The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023: Artificial Intelligence by JetBrains
š¦ Meta AI released Code Llama 70B this week. You can try it out in Continue with Ollama, Together, Perplexity, and other providers now
Upcoming Events
1ļøā£ Continue weekly office hours will be on Wednesdays at 10am PST in February
2ļøā£ We will be co-hosting another open-source AI developers meetup in SF on Feb 12th
3ļøā£ Ty will be speaking about development data at Data Council in Austin, TX on Mar 28th
Did you know?
We released an experimental version of tab-autocomplete that uses deepseek-coder:1.3b-base on Ollama by default. The goal is to make Continue's autocomplete entirely configurable. Nate plans to tweet about his process of building it here š
