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June

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Editors' summary

Copilot moves into the editor, and the training data argument starts

On 29 June, GitHub released GitHub Copilot, built with OpenAI, in technical preview. It suggests what comes next from a comment or a half-written line in the editor, drawing attention as a product that puts a large language model into everyday development.

It also started an argument about licences and copyright, since it had learned from public code. What to make of a tool that emits fragments resembling someone else's work, without attribution, was now a live question.

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Record1 events
  1. 29
    ProductOpenAI / Microsoft / Nat Friedman

    GitHub Copilot launches in technical preview

    GitHub, a Microsoft subsidiary, launched the technical preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer developed in collaboration with OpenAI. Powered by OpenAI Codex, it suggests line and whole-function completions in the editor based on comments and surrounding code. CEO Nat Friedman said it worked especially well for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go. Copilot became the first major product to embed a large language model into everyday developer workflows.

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