Microsoft’s GitHub Unit Cuts AI Deals With Google, Anthropic
GitHub’s Copilot coding assistant will offer new AI models as option for users who want to switch from OpenAI.
After teaming up with OpenAI a few years ago, GitHub pioneered the use of generative artificial intelligence to automate tedious parts of the coding process.
Photographer: Lionel Ng/BloombergMicrosoft Corp.’s GitHub has agreed to bake artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and Alphabet Inc.’s Google into a coding assistant used by millions of software developers.
At first, customers will be able to use Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to chat and ask questions, GitHub said Tuesday at its Universe conference in San Francisco. Eventually, the models will be incorporated into the main part of the GitHub Copilot assistant, which can spit out code with a few simple prompts.
