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Microsoft's GitHub goes beyond OpenAI, welcomes AI models from Anthropic, Google

GitHub is giving software developers more choices for its popular coding assistant, meaning they won't be limited to models from OpenAI.

The arrival of the o1 models from OpenAI in September led GitHub to look at adding a drop-down menu for Copilot to provide more options, Dohmke said in an interview with CNBC last week. The following month, Microsoft said it was hiring Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of DeepMind, and employees of his startup, Inflection, whose Pi assistant competed with OpenAI's popular ChatGPT. And GitHub showed a technical preview of a feature named Spark that can compose app prototypes based on text input and refine the designs with a few clicks.

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