Microsoft’s developer platform GitHub announced GitHub Models – an interactive sandbox for engineers and developers to test different AI models. The options include models such as Meta AI’s Llama, OpenAI GPT-4o, GPT-4o Mini, Mistral AI Mistral Large 2, and Cohere Command. A limited number of people have been given access to the playground’s beta.
GitHub Models allows developers to test AI models, deploy them via the playground and launch them in environments such as Visual Studio Code and GitHub Codespaces.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is convinced that the democratic tool, which allows users to create AI applications, will have a major impact in India. “Every developer in India using GitHub could become an AI engineer and generate a whole new wave of AI apps that would accelerate India’s advantage in the AI age.”
GitHub Models, like Hugging Face and other platforms that help developers integrate their code with existing workflows, makes it easier.
Cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, OpenAI and others have also offered model playgrounds. Azure’s Playground is only available to their customers, who must complete a specific workflow before signing up.
GitHub’s models, on the other hand can be used instantly. The users can then switch over to Azure.
Developers interested in GitHub Models are invited to sign up for a waiting list.
