December 19th.MicrosoftIts code hosting platform GitHub A blog post today (December 19) announced GitHub Copilot Free, a free subscription that allows developers to use the GitHub Copilot AI service for free in the Visual Studio Code code editor.
GitHub announced last week that the number of developers on its platform surpassed 150 million, and this free open means that 150 million developers around the world will be able to experience the power of AI-assisted programming in VS Code.1AI has attached the introduction below:
With a free subscription to GitHub Copilot Free, developers can choose from Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI's GPT-4o models, and make 2,000 calls per month to generate and patch code, as well as 50 chat messages asking them to answer programming questions, explain existing code, troubleshoot code bugs, perform edits across files, and more. It also supports Copilot's third-party intelligences.