Software developer platform GitHub now has more than 150 million developers, the Microsoft-backed company said on Thursday, December 19. It also launched a new free tier of GitHub Copilot on VS Code.
“With GitHub Copilot Free on VS Code, India can accelerate the timeline to become the world’s largest developer community. But only if we make it,” CEO Thomas Dohmke said in a statement.
“Let’s now empower every person in India to code and create in natural language – and to code with Copilot,” he added.
By integrating Microsoft’s flagship AI offering Copilot into VS Code, all users with a personal GitHub account will be able to access 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month.
This means that developers can prompt an AI model to answer a coding-related question or find a bug in their code. Users can also execute edits on multiple files, and access Copilot’s third-party agents or build their own extensions. They can choose between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT-4o model.
Starting today, all GitHub developers can use Copilot Chat directly from their dashboard. Students, teachers, and open-source project leaders will continue to enjoy free unlimited access to their Copilot Pro accounts, the company said.
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