GitHub Copilot expands AI model support [Video]

GitHub is bringing multi-model support to GitHub Copilot, its AI-powered coding assistant, enabling developers to select from multiple generative AI models including Google Gemini 1.5 Pro, OpenAI GPT-4o, OpenAI o1-preview, OpenAI o1-mini, and Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Multi-model support is only available in GitHub Copilot Chat initially, but will be enabled elsewhere in Copilot soon, GitHub said.

This models list was unveiled on October 29. In addition to announcing multi-model support, GitHub on the same day unveiled GitHub Spark, an AI-native tool for building fully functional web applications in natural language.

Developers using GitHub Copilot in github.com or Visual Studio Code can toggle between models during a conversation with Copilot Chatto choose the right model for the right use case. Or, they can continue to let GitHub Copilot use its powerful default, GitHub said. With the multi-model approach, GitHub is enabling developers to use an array of leading models in workflows they are …