The Copilot X launch has been announced by Microsoft-owned open-source developer platform GitHub, which represents the company's vision for the future of AI-powered software development.

 

With the adoption of the new GPT-4 paradigm by GitHub and the addition of chat and voice for Copilot, developers can now ask questions about their projects using Copilot on pull requests, the command line, and manuals.

 

"From reading docs to writing code to submitting pull requests and beyond, we're working to personalise GitHub Copilot for every team, project, and repository it's used in, creating a radically improved software development lifecycle," Thomas Dohmke, CEO at GitHub, said in a statement.

 

"At the same time, we will continue to innovate and update the heart of GitHub Copilot -- the AI pair programmer that started it all," he added.

 

A chat interface called "Copilot chat" is being added by the firm to the editor. It will be targeted at developer use cases and will be natively integrated with VS Code and Visual Studio.

 

Because Copilot Chat is tightly integrated with the IDE, it can recognise the typed code and error messages of developers (Integrated Development Environment).

 

Also, Copilot chat will integrate with GitHub's speech-to-code AI technology extension, now dubbed "Copilot voice," which enables developers to orally provide natural language suggestions.

 

Moreover, developers can now register for a technical preview of the initial AI-generated pull request descriptions on GitHub.

 

With the help of a GitHub software that organisation administrators and repository owners can install, this new feature provides support for AI-powered tags in pull request descriptions. It is powered by OpenAI's new GPT-4 model.

 

Additionally, GitHub is introducing Copilot for documents, an experimental service that employs a chat interface to offer users AI-generated answers to queries regarding documentation, including queries from developers about the languages, frameworks, and technologies they are utilising, the business stated.