GitHub Unveils Revolutionary Model Hosting Service: A New Era for Developers

GitHub today announced the launch of a new service: GitHub Models. This service is aimed at developers, facilitating them to find and test AI models for free. Currently, it supports models including OpenAI GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, Microsoft Phi-3, Meta Llama-3.1, and Mistral Large 2, among others.

GitHub Models offers both open and premium models, with plans to add more in the coming months, including multi-modal visual models.

The fundamental purpose of this service? It's to channel traffic to Microsoft Azure's model hosting services. Developers can test these models directly on GitHub and integrate them into their projects. Once development is complete and they're ready to use Azure AI, developers simply need to replace the GitHub Token with Azure credentials.

For developers, the main advantage of GitHub Models lies in its integration within GitHub, making it incredibly easy to test these models, complete development, and deploy with Azure AI in a production environment.

GitHub CEO, Thomas Dohmke, stated:

"GitHub Copilot is fundamentally changing the pace of software development, with Copilot now writing nearly 50% of the code in enabled files. With GitHub Copilot Workspace, we've envisioned a new world where millions of novices, enthusiasts, and professional developers can program entirely in natural human language. Now, with GitHub Models, over 100 million developers can directly access and test these new AI models on GitHub."

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella remarked:

"Launching GitHub Models offers more than 100 million developers, who call GitHub home, new ways to incorporate industry-leading AI models directly into their workflows."

However, GitHub Models is still in the testing phase. Developers need to register on a waitlist and await an invitation from GitHub. Interested developers can register here:

https://github.com/marketplace/models/waitlist

Below is the list of supported models:

• AI21-Jamba series
• Cohere Command R series
• Cohere Embed v3 series
• Meta Llama-3 series
• Meta Llama-3.1 series
• Mistral series
• OpenAI GPT-4 series
• OpenAI Text Embedding 3 Small
• Microsoft Phi-3 series