Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has unveiled Tongyi Lingma, an AI-based coding tool designed to accelerate app development.

Powered by Alibaba Cloud’s Tongyi Qianwen language models, the tool improves coding efficiency by understanding prompts, writing code, and debugging.

Tongyi Lingma can potentially complete app development within minutes and supports Microsoft Visual Studio Code and JetBrains’ developer tools, a feature that distinguishes it from competitors.

The tool has garnered interest among Chinese programmers, with Shanghai-based software engineer Frank Lin noting its promising features.