GitHub AI-based coding chatbot now available for individual users

2023-09-21

Microsoft's GitHub is rolling out its AI-powered coding chatbot to more people. The company launched the beta version of the Copilot Chat tool for enterprise users in July and announced on Wednesday that GitHub Copilot is now available for personal users in the beta versions of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

Copilot Chat allows users to have conversations with an AI assistant while writing code to get help. GitHub wrote in a blog post, "Now, both development teams and individual users can use GitHub Copilot Chat to learn new programming languages or frameworks, troubleshoot errors, or get answers to programming questions in simple, natural language, all without leaving the integrated development environment."

If you want to try this feature, the Copilot subscription for personal users is priced at $10 per month or $100 per year.

Coding assistants have always been popular applications for AI chatbots. For example, Google introduced an AI coding bot for Android developers at the Google I/O conference in May, and Amazon offers its own tool called CodeWhisperer.

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