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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Elsewhere, Microsoft is open-sourcing GitHub Copilot in VS Code, its assistive coding extension for Visual Studio Code. Over the next few months, AI-powered capabilities from the GitHub Copilot ...

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 open sourced a Copilot Chat sample app that organizations can use as a blueprint for their own customized chatbots based on advanced generative AI tech. That tech is available because the ...

And finally, Microsoft announced a new open source project called NLWeb to help developers create conversational AI interfaces for their websites using any model or data source they’d like.

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 ...