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GitHub knows that it’s critical for students to be able to easily learn new skills, test out new workflows, and gain credentials. But students often have to do so on a limited budget while they focus on their studies. That’s why we launched the Student Developer Pack 10 years ago to make sure that the […]
This post was originally published on the Microsoft for Developers blog. At Microsoft, we strive to build the world’s most beloved developer tools and services. Our vision is to empower every developer to transform their concepts into reality, from idea to code to cloud, at lightning speed. The Visual Studio family, Azure, GitHub, and GitHub […]
The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community. We announced these awards live at GitHub Universe 2024, but here’s a recap for those who missed it! Open Source Awards Wonderfully Welcoming Award Home Assistant is […]
Welcome to your flow state. This year marks our tenth GitHub Universe—and one theme has remained constant: our focus on developers and the developer experience. Over 10 years, that developer experience has evolved from inventing the pull request to building the world’s most widely adopted AI coding tool, GitHub Copilot. Today, our platform serves more […]
GitHub Copilot has long leveraged different large language models (LLMs) for different use cases. The first public version of Copilot was launched using Codex, an early version of OpenAI GPT-3, specifically fine-tuned for coding tasks. Copilot Chat was launched in 2023 with GPT-3.5 and later GPT-4. Since then, we have updated the base model versions […]
Over the past few years, we’ve seen the number of nonprofits leveraging GitHub grow—and grow. Technology is increasingly becoming a critical part of nonprofit’s strategies to drive forward their missions, accelerate human progress, and take big strides toward the Sustainable Development Goals. And we’re here to make this process easier and more accessible for all—from […]
In September, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. September 16 21:11 UTC (lasting 57 minutes) On September 16, 2024, between 21:11 UTC and 22:08 UTC, GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages services were degraded. Customers who deploy Pages from a source branch experienced delayed runs. We determined the root cause […]