AI Weekly: Researchers attempt an open source alternative to GitHub's Copilot

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! In June, OpenAI teamed up with GitHub to launch Copilot, a service that provides suggestions for whole lines of code inside development environments like Microsoft Visual Studio. Powered by an AI model called Codex -- which OpenAI later exposed through an API -- Copilot can translate natural language into code across more than a dozen programming languages, interpreting commands in plain English and executing them. Now, a community effort is underway to create an open source, freely available alternative to Copilot and OpenAI's Codex model.