Artificial intelligence programming startup Kite has raised $10 million in new funding to expand its research-and-development team and build new features to make developers more productive.

Announced Monday, the round was led by Trinity Ventures with personal participation from GitHub Chief Executive Officer Nat Friedman.

Several sites reported that the round was $17 million, but the company said the new funding was $10 million. Adam Smith, Kite’s founder and CEO, explained to SiliconANGLE that $7 million in previous funding was converted into stock during the round, bringing total funding to $17 million.

Founded in 2014, Kite offers an AI platform that is pitched as an “artificial pair programmer.” Catering to Python coding, Kite shows users examples and documentation for libraries and terminal commands used in the coding process.

The platform is claimed to detect simple errors and offers prompts to fix them for codes, in theory assisting in delivering a superior coding experience. It does so by scanning publicly available Python code on GitHub using machine learning to abstract syntax trees derived from code. According to Infoworld, this provides the models with some sense of the code’s intent and context, delivering autosuggestion and autocompletion of common code patterns based on how a developer and others have written code in the past.

Kites said its platform is now used by more than 30,000 Python developers via a plugin. It’s available for  a range of major code editors, including Atom, PyCharm/IntelliJ, Sublime Text, Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Vim.

“Our mission is to bring the latest advancements in AI and machine learning to make writing code fluid, effortless and more enjoyable,” Smith said in a statement. “Developers using Kite can focus their productive energy towards solving the next big technical challenges, instead of searching the web for code examples illustrating mundane and frequently repeated code patterns.”

Along with the funding announcement, Kite announced the release of “Line-of-Code Completions,” the ability to complete a line of code with multiple relevant tokens of code all at once, moving the AI-assisted coding frontier further. With the release, Kite’s platform can now be installed locally on a user’s computer, negating the need for internet access.

Previous investors in Kite include PayPal founder Max Levchin, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg, Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale, Dropbox founder Drew Houston, Cruise Automation co-founder Kyle Vogt, Gusto co-founder Joshua Reeves and Twitch.tv founder Emmett Shear.

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