GitHub Copilot Extensions Integrate IDEs with External Services

Now generally available, GitHub Copilot Extensions allow developers to use natural language to query documentation, generate code, retrieve data, and execute actions on external services without leaving their IDEs. Besides using public extensions from companies like Docker, MongoDB, Sentry, and many more, developers can create their own extensions to work with internal libraries or APIs.

IBM Granite 3.2 Brings New Vision Language Model, Chain of Thought Reasoning, Improved TimeSeries

IBM has introduced its new Granite 3.2 multi-modal and reasoning model. Granite 3.2 features experimental chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities that significantly improve its predecessor’s performance, a new vision language model (VLM) outperforming larger models on several benchmarks, and smaller models for more efficient deployments.

OpenAI Launches New API, SDK, and Tools to Develop Custom Agents

OpenAI has announced the new Responses API, the Agents SDK, and observability tools to address the challenges that creating production-ready agents pose, such as building custom orchestration, and handling prompt iteration across complex, multi-step tasks.

Gemini Code Assist Now Grants Generous Free-Usage Limits to Everyone

Born as an enterprise-focused AI-based code generation tool, Gemini Code Assist now provides a free tier to individual developers with a limit of 6,000 code completions and 240 chat requests daily.

Mistral AI Launches API for LLM-Based OCR of Multimodal Documents

Now available on Mistral AI’s la Plateforme SaaS, Mistral OCR aims to provide an OCR solution for digitizing complex documents that interleave text and images, tables, mathematical expressions, and advanced layouts. This makes it particularly suitable for digitizing scientific research, historical documents and artifacts, user manuals, and more, the company says.