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Available to Copilot Business/Enterprise admins and individual users from the AI usage page (GitHub Changelog). This is the specific number you need to know whether prompt caching is paying for itself. Aggregate token counts hide a cache that's written far more than it's hit, which is the default state of a badly-partitioned prompt. Download it before you tune your context strategy, not after.
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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 mul...
Chosen alongside the model when a task starts, across Pro, Pro+, Business, Enterprise and Max, with the explicit trade-off that higher levels consume more credits. Making compute budget an explicit developer decision rather than a platform default is the notable move here, and...
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...
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...
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...
K3's weights have been public since late July and it is the largest open-weight model in the world, yet the local runtimes only just caught up while GitHub shipped K3 to every Copilot tier this week (GitHub Changelog). The old open-weights story has inverted. The hosted path i...
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