Microsoft has open sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension, marking a major step in turning VS Code into an open-source AI editor focused on transparency, collaboration, and community-driven ...

VS Code team open‑sourced GitHub Copilot Chat (MIT licence) and invites developers to explore, contribute and shape the AI editor.

Gitpod, the company behind the namesake open source developer platform automating the provisioning of ready-to-code developer environments, differentiates between the two partly with the claim that ...