AI-assisted coding start-up Kite sunsets after failing to take flight

Founder Adam Smith said his business failed to take off because current state-of-the-art machine learning models'don't understand the structure of code'. Kite, a start-up that has been developing artificial intelligence technology to help developers write code for nearly a decade, is sunsetting its business. Based in San Francisco, Kite was founded in 2014 as an early pioneer in the emerging field of AI that assists software developers in writing code – an'autocomplete' for programming of sorts. But now, after eight years of pursuing its vision to be a leader in AI-assisted programming, founder Adam Smith announced on the company website that the business is now wrapping up. "From 2014 to 2021, Kite was a start-up using AI to help developers write code. We have stopped working on Kite and are no longer supporting the Kite software," Smith wrote.