Copilot News 06/21/2022 AI Rating: Medium

GitHub Copilot Reaches General Availability: Opens to All Developers at $10/Month

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On June 21, 2022, GitHub made GitHub Copilot generally available (GA) after roughly a year in technical preview. Opened up to all developers as a $10/month (or $100/year) subscription, this marked the milestone where AI coding assistance was first launched to the world as a full-fledged paid product.

Details

  • Pricing: $10/month or $100/year for individuals. Verified students and maintainers of popular open-source projects could use it for free
  • Technical preview track record: More than 1.2 million developers had taken part in the earlier preview
  • Suggestion acceptance rate: For major languages like Python, it was reported that around 40% of code in enabled files had been written by Copilot
  • Supported editors: Compatible with major editors including Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains IDEs
  • Future plans: At launch it was available only for individuals, with a business plan slated for later in 2022

What happened next

About a year after GA, 2023 brought the conversational “GitHub Copilot Chat” and the “GitHub Copilot X” vision covering the entire development lifecycle, expanding the tool’s role from a simple code-completion assistant into a conversational AI development partner.

Source https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-is-generally-available-to-all-developers/

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