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Microsoft to open source VSCode copilot & WSL

Over the next few months, AI-powered capabilities from the GitHub Copilot extension will migrate to the VS Code open source repository, says Microsoft. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), the feature in Windows that allows users to run a Linux environment directly on their Windows system, will be open sourced.

Microsoft make their world model able capable of generating 10fps and release a Quake II inspired demo. John Carmack weighs in on the haters.

The free lunch that was smashing GitHub Copilot’s premium models with unlimited requests is over and rate limits are coming in May. Any requests not hitting the base model (currently: OpenAI GPT-4o) are considered premium, so Sonnet, Gemini, o1 etc. The rate limits are as follows:

Copilot Free: 50/month
Copilot Pro: 300/month
Copilot Pro+ 1500/month
Copilot Business: 300/month
Copilot Enterprise: 1000/month

The premium models also have a rate multiplier where for example Claude Sonnet 3.5/3.7 have a rate mulitplier of 1, and o1 and GPT-4.5 have a rate multiplier of 10 and 50 respectively.

The news comes with an announcement of the GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan, a new individual tier priced at 39USD/month with 1500 requests/month to premium models.

GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens - Just when you thought it was Cursor/Claude Desktop/Roo/Cline, m$ reminds you they’ll eat your lunch.

Microsoft releases Phi-3 vision

a 4.2B parameter multimodal model with language and vision capabilities.

Microsoft CEO on owning OpenAI, from Elon vs OpenAI lawsuit

Microsoft’s CEO boasted that it would not matter if OpenAI disappeared tomorrow. He explained that “we have all the IP rights and all the capability. We have the people, we have the compute, we have the data, we have everything. We are below them, above them, around them.”