Copilot News 12/29/2023 AI Rating: Medium

GitHub Copilot Chat reaches general availability — now standard across all plans

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On December 29, 2023, GitHub moved “GitHub Copilot Chat” — the chat feature first announced at Copilot X in March 2023 — from beta to general availability (GA). Offered for VS Code and Visual Studio at no extra cost across all GitHub Copilot plans, this marked the moment a product once centered on code completion firmly established itself as a conversational AI assistant.

Details

  • Supported editors: Generally available in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio, moving from beta to an official feature
  • Underlying model: Built on GPT-4, enabling responses that understand code context
  • Pricing: Included at no extra cost in every Copilot plan for individuals and organizations. Verified teachers, students, and open-source maintainers continue to get it free
  • Multilingual support: Also emphasized the ability to chat in a developer’s preferred natural language, such as German or Portuguese
  • Use cases: Highlighted uses such as translating code between languages, generating bash commands, and checking coding conventions — all without leaving the IDE

What happened next

GitHub positioned this announcement as central to its vision that “natural language will become the new universal programming language.” Building on the traction of Copilot Chat, “GitHub Copilot Workspace” — targeting entire repositories — arrived in April 2024, further expanding AI’s role from suggesting code snippets to supporting task-level development work.

Source https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-chat-now-generally-available-for-organizations-and-individuals/

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