Microsoft uses OpenAI's technology to power GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant that provides autocomplete suggestions while developers code5. It utilizes OpenAI Codex, a new AI system developed by OpenAI, to help derive context from written code and comments, and then suggests new lines or entire functions5.
The copyright lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI was filed in 2022.
The companies involved in the lawsuit are GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The lawsuit was filed by a group of developers in 2022, accusing the companies of violating copyright laws by allowing the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant to train on developers' work. Microsoft owns GitHub and uses OpenAI's technology to power the tool.