Microsoft (MS) GitHub has released a free version of ‘CoPilot’, a synthetic intelligence (AI) coding tool. The intention is to expand market share within the increasingly competitive AI coding tool market.
GitHub announced ‘Copilot Free’, a free version of ‘Copilot’, on its blog on the 18th (local time).
Co-Pilot, which previously required a $10 monthly subscription fee, is now available at no cost to anyone with a GitHub account. This can be a measure to counter the free services of competitor AWS.
‘CoPilot Pro’, the prevailing $10 per thirty days paid version, continues to be available in business and enterprise versions, and users in educational institutions and open source maintainers may use CoPilot Pro at no cost.
CoPilot Free offers many of the features of the Pro version, however the variety of questions you may ask the AI is proscribed to 50, and real-time code completion is proscribed to 2,000 per thirty days. Moreover, it doesn’t support fine-tuned models or pull request summary functions.
CoPilot Free, available through the VS Code editor, will be applied by choosing either Antropic’s ‘Claude 3.5 Sonnet’ or OpenAI’s ‘GPT-4o’ model. This enables users to ask coding-related questions, explain code, detect bugs, etc., edit files, and access third-party agents.
On this present day, GitHub announced that the variety of Co-Pilot users exceeded 150 million as of this month, up from 100 million in early 2023. In line with Statista data, essentially the most widely used AI tool amongst developers is OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT’ (82%), followed by GitHub’s Co-Pilot (44%) and Google’s Gemini (22%). ‘ is following.
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