Oh, Just Microsoft Offering Other Models Beyond Open AI. No Big Deal. | Techmeme Ride Home Podcast
As Alex Heath said on Twitter last night, nothing to see here, just Microsoft offering tons of AI models beyond those from OpenAI. GitHub says Copilot will support Anthropic, Google, AND OpenAI models, unveiled an AI tool to build micro web apps called Spark, Copilot for Xcode, and more. Quoting The Verge:
GitHub Copilot users on the web or VS Code can select Claude 3.5, with Gemini 1.5 Pro in the coming weeks. OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o1-preview, and o1-mini models will also be available in GitHub Copilot soon. Developers will be able to toggle between models during a conversation with Copilot Chat to find the model that’s best for a particular task.
“There is no one model to rule every scenario, and developers expect the agency to build with the models that work best for them,” says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. “It is clear the next phase of AI code generation will not only be defined by multi-model functionality, but by multi-model choice.”
Microsoft-owned GitHub was the first to launch its AI tool called Copilot in 2021, ahead of Microsoft’s push to make Copilot the center of its AI efforts. It was the first major result of Microsoft’s initial $1 billion investment into OpenAI, and GitHub announced last week that Copilot now has more than 1 million paid subscribers. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft adopts GitHub’s multi-model approach and opens up its own Copilot AI assistant to models from rivals like Google and Anthropic.
GitHub is also announcing Spark today, an AI tool that makes it easier to build web apps using natural language. An initial prompt uses OpenAI and Anthropic models to produce live previews of what the web app will look like, and GitHub Spark users can compare versions as they make changes. GitHub Spark lets experienced developers directly manipulate code, while novice ones can create a web app entirely using natural language.
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