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GitHub shipped it July 28 across Pro through Enterprise, reachable from VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse, with text and image inputs and low/medium/high reasoning effort, billed at provider list pricing rather than a fixed multiplier. The detail that bites teams: Business and Enterprise admins must explicitly enable the Grok 4.5 policy. It ships off. Direct xAI API access runs $2/M input and $6/M output.
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July 9, across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse. Sol is the high-reasoning tier at $5/1M in, $30/1M out, gated to Pro+/Max/Business/Enterprise. Terra is the balanced default at $2.50/$15. Luna is fas...
43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1. Opus 4.8 scored 18.7%. That's not an incremental bump, that's the same benchmark with a different shape of answer. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24 at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, exactly half of Fable 5's $10/$50, while matc...
The July 29 changelog introduces a global default enablement policy: models reaching GA in Copilot are on by default for Business and Enterprise, with one opt-out control for stricter governance. That's a direct reversal of the July 28 Grok 4.5 rollout posture, which required...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
copilot-sdk v1.0.9-preview.1 landed July 30 at 19:36 UTC: a trusted extension declares a JavaScript closure that orchestrates a fleet of subagents and invokes it by name, with the runtime calling the closure over reverse RPC and handing it primitives to spawn subagents, compos...
The sunset notice is short and it doesn't hedge. Code freeze July 29. Repository archived August 10. Core team gone August 31. npm and Docker packages deprecated. Flowise has 55,186 stars and 24,850 forks under Apache-2.0, and the team wrote its own cause of death: developers...
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