From the course: AI-Powered Development: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

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GitHub Copilot supports a growing set of advanced AI models. Let's examine what's available. Now remember, GitHub Copilot is fundamentally a cloud-based AI coding assistant. Visual Studio Code and other editors like NeoVim, JetBrains, or Visual Studio are just clients. They provide the interface and plug-in hooks, but the intelligence comes from the Copilot service in the cloud. This means that the AI models don't run locally in Visual Studio Code. Instead, your query is passed to GitHub's back-end service. GitHub decides which models and versions are available. These can evolve over time. Newer models may replace older ones, or specialized models may be introduced for tasks like chat versus inline completions. This means that what is available in Visual Studio Code will evolve. The best place to find out what's available is here on the GitHub website page. This is a list of the current supported AI models for Copilot. GitHub is constantly updating this list. This is what I see at the…

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