Microsoft is bringing its OpenAI collaboration to GitHub to help developers write code faster.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Judge as of 2021-06-29. True: on or around that date, Microsoft or GitHub announced a product or preview on GitHub, built on OpenAI technology from the Microsoft–OpenAI collaboration (for example, GitHub Copilot powered by OpenAI Codex), whose stated purpose is to help developers write code (such as code completion or suggestions). Mostly true: such a product was announced, with a minor discrepancy in detail, such as it being a limited technical preview rather than generally available. Mostly false: the GitHub product was announced but did not use OpenAI technology, or no GitHub product was announced at the time and only plans existed. False: there was no OpenAI-based coding product for GitHub at or around this date.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Introducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer GitHub Blog · 29 June 2021 Own record
“Developed in collaboration with OpenAI, GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, a new AI system created by OpenAI.”
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E2 Introducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer GitHub Blog · 29 June 2021 Own record
“Today, we are launching a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code.”
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E3 [PDF] arXiv:2304.10778v2 [cs.SE] 22 Oct 2023 - SciSpace arXiv preprint (hosted on SciSpace) · 22 October 2023
“for technical preview in the Visual Studio Code development environment on June 29, 2021 (Friedman, 2021).”
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E4 Businesses can soon buy GitHub's AI coding tool CIO Dive · 11 November 2022
“First launched in a private beta in June 2021, GitHub's Copilot uses the GPT-3 engine OpenAI Codex to suggest individual lines of code or entire functions to software developers.”
Reasoning
On 2021-06-29 GitHub announced a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that helps developers write code. It was developed with OpenAI and powered by OpenAI Codex (E1, E2). An independent academic paper confirms the June 29, 2021 technical-preview announcement (E3). They also confirm that Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest lines of code or whole functions (E4). The claim does not say the product was generally available, and the criteria count an announced preview as meeting the true standard.
Cite this claim
Satya Nadella, “Microsoft is bringing its OpenAI collaboration to GitHub to help developers write code faster.” (said 29 June 2021). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_61ec7440f35e, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_61ec7440f35e
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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