Microsoft has open-sourced its popular GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, a key step towards a transparent, community ...

Microsoft just made GitHub Copilot free and open source software under the MIT License. As of today, you can fork it, modify ...

VS Code’s June 2025 update supercharges GitHub Copilot with new chat customization tools, smarter inline completions, and an ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based ...

VS Code team open‑sourced GitHub Copilot Chat (MIT licence) and invites developers to explore, contribute and shape the AI ...

VS Code 1.102, otherwise known as the June 2025 release, builds out GitHub Copilot Chat capabilities and finalizes support ...

Most recently, Microsoft has been sued by programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick, who has alleged that GitHub’s Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of ...

Microsoft Copilot started as a Bing chatbot, but now it encompasses a suite of AI-enhanced services that span Windows, Outlook and more. ... teachers and qualifying open-source projects.

Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...

Microsoft’s embrace of open source AI at Ignite 2023 this week is notable in light of the fact that CEO Satya Nadella took the time to appear at OpenAI’s first-ever developer conference DevDay ...