BRINGING LOCAL MODELS AND SANDBOXED TOOLS TO WINDOWS AND GITHUB COPILOT

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GitHub Copilot is introducing support for local inference models and sandboxed tool execution on Windows devices, coordinated automatically with cloud models through intelligent orchestration. To enable this, Microsoft AI developed a quantized local version of the coding-optimized MAI Code 1.1 Flash model running on NVIDIA RTX Spark hardware with unified memory. Additionally, Microsoft Execution Containers provide operating-system-level sandboxing to secure shell commands and local server interactions during agentic workflows.