Microsoft-owned GitHub is rolling out its AI-powered programming chatbot to more people. The company launched a public beta version of the Copilot chat tool for enterprise users in July this year. On Wednesday, GitHub announced that the tool has launched a public beta version for individual users of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
CopilotChat lets users talk to an artificial intelligence assistant for help while writing code. "Now, development teams and individuals can use GitHub CopilotChat to learn a new language or framework, troubleshoot bugs, or get answers to programming questions in simple, natural language output, all without leaving the integrated development environment," GitHub wrote in a blog post.
GitHub's Copilot personal user plan costs $10 per month or $100 per year.
Programming assistance has been a popular application for AI chatbots. For example, Google launched an artificial intelligence programming robot for Android developers at the Google I/O conference in May this year, and Amazon also provided its own tool called CodeWhisperer.