Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 30 -- NxtGen, the country's sovereign cloud provider, in collaboration with Bud Ecosystem, today announced the launch of 'M for Coding', an AI-driven coding assistant positioned as an affordable alternative to global tools like Claude Code and Copilot.

The new platform, unveiled at Cypher25, India's largest AI summit and expo, is offered through NxtGen's M GenAI platform and powered by Bud's generative AI Foundry.

According to the partners, the initiative is aimed at making advanced coding assistance financially accessible to a wider spectrum of developers, startups, and enterprises across India.

Industry observers note that with more than six million developers across startups, SMEs, academic institutions, and ...