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GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft’s popular VS Code editor. Until now, most developers had to pay a monthly fee, starting at $10 per month, with only verified students, teachers, and open source maintainers getting free access.

GitHub also announced that it now has 150 million developers on its platform, up from 100 million in early 2023.

“My first project [at GitHub] in 2018 was free private repositories, which we launched very early in 2019,” GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke told me in an exclusive interview ahead of Wednesday’s announcement. “Then we had kind of a v2 with free private organizations in 2020. We have free [GitHub] Actions entitlements. I think at my first Universe [conference] as CEO, we announced free Codespaces. And so it felt natural, at some point, to get to the point where we also have a completely free Copilot, not just one that is for students and open source maintainers.”

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There's absolutely no way this is sustainable

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's limited. They give you a free dose at first and expect you to come back for more later.

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why is it never drugs??

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

It's basically digital drugs.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

I mean chatgpt isn't sustainable right now, and is losing money.

Large corpos/VC funded startups will happily burn money to capture a critical mass of users. They're frontloading cost to capture market share. Similar to Alexa's, they're dirt cheap to get you into their ecosystem. Rappi has done this in Latin America, uber did it for a time, etc.