A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy: its OpenAI deal, data center investments, neocloud renting, GitHub Copilot, its MAI models, its Maia chip, and more
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AI coding startups are at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI; a source says Microsoft's GitHub Copilot grew to $500M+ in revenue in 2024
Two years after the launch of ChatGPT, return on investment in generative AI has been elusive, but one area stands out: software development.
GitHub debuts an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve documentation, and more, and open sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code
Body — I find the following two news items on the front page: Thomas Dohmke / The GitHub Blog : GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent Visual Studio Code : VS Code: Open Source AI Editor The GitH...
GitHub announces an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve docs, and more, and open-sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Microsoft says GitHub Copilot has 15M+ users, up 4x YoY; GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says its code review agent, launched in April, has handled 8M+ pull requests
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott :
GitHub announces “premium requests” for GitHub Copilot, a new rate limit system for when users switch from the base GPT-4o to other AI models for certain tasks
Aside from my distaste around ‘vibe coding,’ I just want a standard interface, ease of use, and Jupyter integration that's easy to implement. [embedded post]
Google releases its free Gemini Code Assist globally in public preview for solo developers, with 180K code completions per month; GitHub Copilot offers 2,000
And provides 90 times more monthly code completions than GitHub Copilot's free tier. … A free version of Gemini Code Assist …
GitHub offers Copilot in VS Code for free with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023
over 150 million developers can now access Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o Chris McKay / Maginative : GitHub Copilot Now Comes with VS Code for Free Tim Anderson / DEVCLASS : GitHub debuts limited Copilot...
What to expect at WWDC 2024: plans to integrate AI into Apple's apps with a new opt-in service called Apple Intelligence, iOS 18, macOS 15, visionOS 2, and more
Is it Mission Impossible? Jade Bryan / nextpit : Apple May Enhance Mail App with New AI Features in iOS 18 Lloyd Coombes / iMore : WatchOS 11 might add a huge upgrade, but you'll need a 2024 Apple Wat...
ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and Nvidia release free code-generating AI models StarCoder2-3B/7B/15B, the first two of which can run on most modern consumer GPUs
Developers are adopting AI-powered code generators — services like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer …