Zed Code Editor Begins Adding AI Features Powered By Anthropic's Claude

Zed, the code/text editor being developed by former Atom editor developers, has continued to gain interest among developers since going open-source, being written in the Rust programming language, and native Linux builds taking shape. The latest feature work on Zed is beginning to integrate AI-powered functionality by leveraging Anthropic's Claude LLM.

Zed AI was announced on Tuesday as a hosted service for AI-enabled coding within the Zed editor. Zed AI currently leverages the Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet large language model. There is also a private beta beginning that uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet's new "Fast Edit Mode" functionality that is optimized around text editing.

Zed AI is free during their initial launch period and requires a sign-on but presumably down the line will become a paid feature. Zed AI is akin to GitHub Copilot within Visual Studio Code and other IDEs for helping with code auto-completion across various programming languages.

Those interested in more details on this AI-assisted coding feature coming to the Zed editor can learn more via the Zed.dev blog.