A closer look at Qiskit Code Assistant

We recently made Qiskit Code Assistant available as a preview release for IBM Quantum™ Premium Plan users. In our latest post on the IBM Quantum blog, we take a look at the inner workings of the granite-8b-qiskit model behind this powerful new quantum code generation tool, and the unique challenges that went into building it.

The blog opens with a high-level overview of our motivations for building Qiskit Code Assistant, long-term plans for open-sourcing the code assistant model, and instructions for getting started with Qiskit Code Assistant in popular coding environments VS Code and JupyterLab. A more detailed version of these instructions can be found in the documentation.

From there, the blog goes on to deliver popular summaries of two recent arXiv papers detailing our work developing the granite-8b-qiskit model, and the Qiskit HumanEval benchmarking method we use to evaluate the performance of quantum code generation tools. Interested readers can explore the blog, and those looking for more technical detail can find the aforementioned arXiv papers here and here.