Today, OpenAI released OpenAI o1, a new series of AI models equipped with advanced reasoning capabilities to solve hard problems. Like you, we are excited to put the new o1 model through its paces and have tested integrating o1-preview with GitHub Copilot. While we are exploring many use cases with this new model, such as debugging large-scale systems,...

In August, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. August 14 23:02 UTC (lasting 36 minutes) On August 14, between 23:02 and 23:38 UTC, all GitHub services on GitHub.com were inaccessible for all users. At 22:59 UTC, an erroneous configuration change rolled out to GitHub.com databases that impacted...

In today’s rapidly evolving field of machine learning (ML), the efficiency and reliability of deploying models into production environments have become as crucial as the models themselves. Machine Learning Operations, or MLOps, bridges the gap between developing machine learning models and deploying them at scale, ensuring that models are not only...

Our mission is to create an AI assistant that’s not only ubiquitous and trustworthy but also uniquely tailored to each organization’s needs. By integrating features like repository indexing and knowledge bases, we’ve enhanced GitHub Copilot to deliver more contextual and personalized assistance. Now, we’re taking this mission a step further with...

Welcome back to GitHub for Beginners, a series designed to help you navigate GitHub with ease. So far in this series, we’ve covered the top Git commands every developer should know, creating repositories, uploading files and folders to your repository, adding code to your repository, creating your first pull request, and merging pull requests. Now...

Open source at the World Health Organization Did you know that the World Health Organization (WHO) was the first agency within the United Nations to establish an Open Source Programme Office (OSPO)? Though these exist in large tech companies, academic institutions, and governments, WHO’s OSPO was the first of its kind —a decision that has helped them...