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Release-by-release coverage of the AI creation stack: video, image, music, voice, design and code generation tools.
Release-by-release coverage of the AI creation stack: video, image, music, voice, design and code generation tools.
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Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Grok 4.6, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. In our i…
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Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
Gemini 3.7 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. From our early testing, the model has made improvements in web and ap…
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Agent Plugins 1.0 in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app
You can now build a plugin once and use it across all compatible agent clients. We published Agent Plugins 1.0 on August 6 with AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenA…
Measuring time savings from Figma Make
Copilot memory and Ollama in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
This update brings persistent memory, local model access, and more enterprise controls to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains. It also improves everyday chat workflows…
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash available in GitHub Copilot
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Microsoft’s latest small-tier coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Building on MAI-Code-1-Flash, it adds native vision …
Upcoming deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash
With the launch of MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, we will deprecate MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences on September 10, 2026: Model Deprecation date Su…
Per-model token breakdown in the usage report
You can now see a per-model breakdown of the tokens behind your AI credits in the usage report. For each model, the AI usage report shows the input, output, cac…
Copilot on web expands conversation controls
We’ve made improvements to Copilot Chat on github.com that make it easier to use. These include easier access to your recent conversations in chat, the ab…
Krea 2 is your model for aesthetics
In a world of slop, creatives need an aesthetics-focused model. Here's how to work with it.…
The Ultimate Guide to FLUX 3
Black Forest Labs' first video model generates audio and video from the same pass, and it takes direction like nothing else we've tried.…
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 3
This week’s updates across GitHub Copilot in the desktop app, CLI, and VS Code help you resume and organize work, review changes, and ask questions withou…
Copilot impact dashboard adds a return on investment section
The Copilot impact dashboard now includes a “Potential return on investment” section that connects what you spend on Copilot to the pull request out…
Copilot code review effort levels are generally available
Lite and Balanced effort levels for GitHub Copilot code review are now generally available. They let you match the depth of a review to the complexity and risk …
MCP allowlists in enterprise managed settings
Enterprise owners can now centrally control which Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers GitHub Copilot clients are allowed to run by using the new allowedMcpServ…
Copilot usage metrics API adds agent app activity
Since agent apps arrived on GitHub, teams have been able to run agents from partners like Claude and Codex directly in their GitHub workflows. The Copilot usage…
GitHub Code Quality no longer adds Copilot as a reviewer
Enabling GitHub Code Quality on a repository no longer creates a ruleset that automatically requests a code review from GitHub Copilot on your pull requests. In…
Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Kimi K3, an open-weight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. The model shows frontier-level abilities on agentic coding with highly cost-effecti…
Better code, fewer tokens: The benefits of Code Connect in MCP
Retiring the Copilot Billing Preview app
We’ve retired the GitHub Copilot Billing Preview app, and it’s no longer available. You can review and manage your Copilot spend directly in your Gi…
Upcoming deprecation of GitHub Spark on github.com
Beginning August 4, 2026, GitHub Spark no longer accepts new users or allows the creation of new apps. Existing users can continue to access GitHub Spark until …
Trigger Copilot automations with comments
You can now create Copilot cloud agent automations that run when an issue comment or pull request comment is created. Common use cases include: Generate documen…
Customize the reasoning level for Copilot cloud agent
When you delegate a task to GitHub Copilot cloud agent, you can now set the reasoning level for models that support it. This allows you to control how much the&…
Upcoming August 2026 model deprecations in GitHub Copilot
We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), …
Enterprise team specialization for managed settings
Enterprise administrators can now customize managed settings by targeting enterprise teams with itemized configuration files. Large enterprises can scale govern…
Code, craft, and the making of nested folders
AI fluency isn't the finish line
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash deprecated
As of today, July 31, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent m…