GitHub Copilot chat now available for organizations and individuals

GitHub Copilot Chat has now become generally available following its initial release in July, a beta test period, and accessibility to individual developers in September. The chatbot is now available to individual users and organizations via GitHub's paid plans, and supports both Visual Studio Code and Microsoft Visual Studio. GitHub has also offered Copilot Chat for free to verified teachers, students, and creators of popular open-source projects.

The chatbot uses OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model. This allows users to input text prompts for the chatbot to answer questions and generate code for software projects. GitHub Copilot Chat can also explain code, suggest code improvements, and generate programming snippets based on the code in the software editor or selected by the developer. It can also identify errors in a developer's code and propose solutions.

Just beware that the chatbot has certain limitations, having difficulties with less common coding languages and structures. You can check visit the GitHub's official press release and support pages to learn more.