Microsoft open sourced a Copilot Chat sample app that organizations can use as a blueprint for their own customized chatbots based on advanced generative AI tech.

The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.

If you want to setup and use Deepseek-R1 in Visual Studio Code, follow the steps mentioned in this tutorial.

Currently, Project IDX offers smart code completion, an assistive chatbot, and contextual code actions like “add comments” and “explain this code”.