GitHub Copilot to Support New AI Models From Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI

GitHub Copilot will soon let developers leverage a larger selection of AI models to write code faster. At GitHub Universe event in San Francisco today, the company announced the upcoming availability of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview in GitHub Copilot.

Since its launch in 2021, GitHub Copilot has been using various OpenAI models to improve its code completion features. However, the company now recognizes that some models are better at certain programming tasks than others. And that’s why it believes GitHub Copilot will become more useful for developers if it offers a larger selection of AI models.

“In the past year, we experienced a boom in high-quality small and large language models that individually excel at different programming tasks,” explained 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. GitHub is committed to its ethos as an open developer platform, and ensuring every developer has the agency to build with the models that work best for them.”

OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are now available in GitHub Copilot Chat on GitHub.com and Visual Studio Code and. These models will be followed by Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet over the next week and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro in the coming weeks. GitHub is also planning to make these multi-model capabilites available in more places including Copilot Workspace , the GitHub CLI, and more.

GitHub also unveiled today GitHub Spark, a new code assistance tool that lets developers build mobile web apps using natural language prompts. GitHub Spark is currently available as a private technical preview, and it supports Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o1-preview and o1-mini. The company hopes to see it play an important role in its strategy to reach one billion developers.