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GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft’s popular VS Code editor. Until now, most developers had to pay a monthly fee, starting at $10 per month, with only verified students, teachers, and open source maintainers getting free access.

GitHub also announced that it now has 150 million developers on its platform, up from 100 million in early 2023.

“My first project [at GitHub] in 2018 was free private repositories, which we launched very early in 2019,” GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke told me in an exclusive interview ahead of Wednesday’s announcement. “Then we had kind of a v2 with free private organizations in 2020. We have free [GitHub] Actions entitlements. I think at my first Universe [conference] as CEO, we announced free Codespaces. And so it felt natural, at some point, to get to the point where we also have a completely free Copilot, not just one that is for students and open source maintainers.”

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[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 49 points 6 days ago

Does the EFF call it Free?

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 19 points 6 days ago

It's free as in beer.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Free as in herpes.

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

This needs to get added to the common nomenclature as the third option 😂

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org -2 points 6 days ago

No such thing as a free beer, no more than there's a free lunch.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 12 points 5 days ago

no more than there's a free lunch.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago

Well, there's free Copilot now.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago

Beer is expensive, and gives you colon cancer.

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago

That's why I take heroin

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

I'm not the one who's so far away
When I feel the snake bite enter my veins

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