Replit has announced that Replit AI is now available for free to its 25+ million developer community, as part of its mission to empower the next billion software creators. They have also released their new code generation language model, Replit Code V1.5 3B, on Hugging Face, emphasizing their belief in open-source language models. This model is trained on 1 trillion tokens from permissively licensed sources and offers state-of-the-art results in code completion tasks, outpacing larger models like CodeLlama7B. It supports 30 programming languages and incorporates advanced techniques for high-quality code generation. The model is designed for fine-tuning in application-specific tasks and is accompanied by tools and guides to facilitate its use and customization.