GitHub has unveiled a new free plan for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, which is available immediately and only requires a GitHub account , according to the announcement post.

The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.

Microsoft had a great thing going when it had GitHub Copilot all to itself in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code thanks to its ownership of GitHub, but that's eroding.

GitHub Copilot is an OpenAI-powered Visual Studio Code extension that can suggest lines of code or entire functions as you type.

GitHub has introduced a new free plan for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, offering 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month without requiring a subscription or payment. The ...

VS Code has barely been released and can already handle OpenAI's latest language model GPT-5. It should bring advantages in ...