Developer platform GitLab today announced a new AI-driven security feature that uses a large language model to explain potential vulnerabilities to developers, with plans to expand this to automatically resolve these vulnerabilities using AI in the future. Earlier this month, the company announced a new experimental tool that explains code to a developer — similar to the new security feature GitLab announced — and a new experimental feature that automatically summarizes issue comments. In this context, it’s also worth noting that GitLab already launched a code completion tool, which is now available to GitLab Ultimate and Premium users, and its ML-based suggested reviewers feature last year. Image Credits: GitLab The new “explain this vulnerability” feature will try to help teams find the best way to fix a vulnerability within the context of code base. It’s this context that makes the difference here, as the tool is able to combine the basic info about the vulnerability with specific insights from the user’s code. This should make it easier and faster to remediate these issues. The company …