Apple plans AI-based code completion tool -report

An Apple logo is pictured in an Apple store in Paris, France September 17, 2021. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo

(Reuters) - Apple plans to launch an artificial intelligence tool for completing lines of software code, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

The tool would be similar to Microsoft's Copilot, which can complete lines and blocks of code based on the first parts of the code typed in by a developer, the news service reported. Apple could include the feature in its Xcode software as early as this year.