GITHUB LAUNCHES A FREE VERSION OF ITS COPILOT

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Microsoft has launched a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool that will ship by default with VS Code. The free version is geared towards occasional users and not major work on big projects. It gives developers access to 2,000 code completions per month. Users on the free plan are restricted to Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI's GPT-4o. The free version of Copilot Chat is limited to 50 chat messages.