Greetings from Sky Harbor (aka PHX airport). I'm heading home after leading a prompt engineering workshop and doing a keynote about AI for my friends at iQmetrix.
In the news: For those unfamiliar, GitHub is a super popular, web-based platform (owned by Microsoft) that allows developers to store, share and collaborate on code. Their AI Copilot (powered by OpenAI) has been around for months. Now, GitHub’s Copilot is officially multi-model, supporting Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s GPT-4 variants. This shift signals the end of the “single model era,” as GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke put it. The choice, he asserts, empowers developers to match models to specific tasks, policies, languages, and personal preferences.
It's a big strategic move for Microsoft. The introduction of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, followed soon by Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, complements existing options like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and o1. Each model brings unique strengths — faster or smaller models suit low-latency needs, while complex models tackle tasks demanding high accuracy. This isn’t merely a feature add; it’s a step toward customizable AI at the developer’s fingertips.
Food for thought as you think about which models are best suited for your upcoming AI projects.
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