Over the past year, AI has not only been behind image generators like DALL E and chatbots like ChatGPT, but has also played a leading role. software developmentAnd progress continues. Copilot, which surprises programmers with its abilities, has just been updated.

Developed by GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, the tool runs on Codex, a language model originally powered by the outstanding GPT-3. But now the company has announced that it has updated the underlying technology of the aforementioned Codex with a “more advanced OpenAI model”.

GPT-3.5 or GPT-4?

Taking the same stance as Microsoft with the new Bing, GitHub has now chosen not to specify which AI model is powering Copilot, but there are some possibilities on the table. Officially, The latest released version of GPT is 3.5.became known late last year for the company’s viral bot led by Sam Altman.

So the new heart of Copilot, and thus of Codex, could be GPT-3.5 or ultimately some other intermediate version or directly future GPT-4. In any case, we see how those at Redmond have not been idle and continue to rely on OpenAI to continue nurturing the applications under their orbit.

Now, this update is not just a paper version change. Timing assistant is now better. According to GitHub, developers will now get more accurate code hints. These will also arrive much faster, which will help them improve their business dynamics.

With these improvements, the company hopes that a greater percentage of code written by developers will be generated by this AI-powered tool. He states that currently, 46% of the code users upload to GitHub has been “chopped” by Copilot, increasing to 61% as they focus on Java.

In addition to the improved artificial intelligence model, the tool now has a new paradigm. Center Fill (FIM)provides developers with better pointers for code hints. This is complemented by an AI-based vulnerability filtering system that blocks unsafe coding patterns.

co-pilot for companies

GitHub continues to evolve the Copilot business model. After a period of testing, the paid version for individual users became available in June of last year. New arrived this week, mainly for companies that allow employers to deploy and manage the tool across work teams.

This possibility will make new customers, in this case corporate, interested in Copilot. And to more customers, More billing for Microsoft subsidiary meanwhile, it specializes in managing business environments with its products. But there’s more, they promise the tool will continue to evolve.

“Over the next few years, we will embed AI in all aspects of the developer experience, from coding to pull requests and code deployments,” he says in a blog post. It remains, then, to keep a close eye on how artificial intelligence is raising its own revolution in the programming world.

Images: GitHub

On Xataka: I’ve been using GitHub’s Copilot for programming for a few days now and that’s my experience