"AI Toolkit extension for VS code now supports external local models via Ollama. It has also added support remote hosted models using API keys for OpenAI, Google and Anthropic."
Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team has been working on the next release of its flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, with an emphasis on improving the GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant.
As Chinese AI tech shakes up the entire industry with new breakthroughs, a new AI-powered IDE from a Beijing firm is flying under the radar, based on the same tech that powers Visual Studio Code and many other code editors.
In an IDE AI update, this week we see JetBrains introducing a new coding agent called Junie just as Microsoft unveiled a free tier for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio.
Microsoft experts are making the rounds educating developers about the company's new, opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native applications with .NET.