Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, ...

GitHub would just add to that strategy: Developers already love GitHub - in fact, in 2017, Microsoft killed Codeplex, its own GitHub competitor, saying that the startup's popularity made its own ...

It’s also intriguing on a business level, given that Microsoft, which owns GitHub, is known for the strong link between its ...

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft adopts GitHub’s multi-model approach and opens up its own Copilot AI assistant to ...

The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.

The service leverages advanced AI models, including Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, with limits.