GitHub announced the general availability of the business version of its AI code generator.
Copilot for Business is geared toward enterprises, which can buy and manage Copilot seat licenses for their employees.
- Copilot is powered by an upgraded version of OpenAI's Codex, an AI system trained on billions of lines of public code to assist programmers with coding.
- Following a brief beta period, GitHub is making Copilot for Business generally available with several new added features.
- These include the ability to detect more security vulnerabilities and block additional insecure code.
- GitHub also announced the ability to embed Copilot for Business into the interface of VS Code, Microsoft's code editor.
- More than 400 organizations are now using Copilot for Business, according to Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft.
