Developer(s) | GitHub, OpenAI |
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Initial release | October 2021 |
Stable release | 1.7.4421
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Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Web |
Website | copilot.github.com |
GitHub Copilot is a code completion and automatic programming tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI that assists users of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains integrated development environments (IDEs) by autocompleting code.[1] Currently available by subscription to individual developers and to businesses, the generative artificial intelligence software was first announced by GitHub on 29 June 2021.[2] Users can choose the large language model used for generation.[3]