Artificial intelligence · 2021

GitHub Copilot

An AI pair programmer autocompletes whole functions inside the editor.

Copilot, powered by OpenAI's Codex model trained on public code, launched in technical preview in June 2021 and generally in 2022. It was the first widely paid generative AI product and made AI coding assistance a daily tool for millions of developers.

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Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

GPT-3 2020
Open source 1998

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The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)