Shengyu Fu

November 20, 2025

Editing code often involves a series of small but necessary changes ranging from refactors to fixes to cleanup and edge-case handling. In February, we launched next edit suggestions (NES), a custom Copilot model that predicts the next logical edit based on the code…

November 19, 2025

In VS Code, GitHub Copilot Chat can access hundreds of tools through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that range from codebase analysis tools to Azure-specific utilities. But giving an agent too many tools doesn’t always make it smarter. Sometimes it just makes…

October 23, 2025

Code completion remains the most widely used GitHub Copilot feature, helping millions of developers stay in the flow every day. Our team has continuously iterated on the custom models powering the completions experience in GitHub Copilot driven by developer feedback.…

September 24, 2025

Finding the right code quickly is critical. After listening to the community’s feedback, we rolled out a new Copilot embedding model that makes code search in VS Code faster, lighter on memory, and far more accurate. This means retrieving the…

March 27, 2025

The GPT-4o Copilot model released in preview last month and updated this month now provides code completions for all Copilot users. This model delivers higher quality suggestions and improved latency.

March 11, 2025

We are excited to announce that the new GPT-4o Copilot code completion model is now available for GitHub Copilot users in Visual Studio starting in 17.14 Preview 2! This new model, based on GPT-4o mini, has undergone additional training on…

February 18, 2025

A new code completion model, GPT-4o Copilot, can now be enabled by VS Code users. This new model based on GPT-4o mini has additional training on over 275,000 high-quality public repositories in over 30 popular programming languages. As a result, you can…

February 16, 2022

Great code completions make you more productive while composing your code. Visual Studio 2022 now automatically completes C# code up to a whole line at a time, using a rich knowledge of your coding context. We have also released the IntelliCode Completions extension in Visual…

August 24, 2020

Since the first IntelliCode code completion model was shipped in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code in 2018, it has become an essential coding assistant for millions of developers around the world. In the past two years, we have been working tirelessly to enable IntelliCode for more programming languages and, in the meantime, researching ways to improve the model precision and coverage to deliver an even more satisfying user experience. One of our major research…