GitHub is integrating xAI's Grok Code Fast 1 into GitHub Copilot as an opt-in public preview for Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code, with a gradual rollout and Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support for individual plans. Grok Code Fast 1 is tuned for code completion and generation and is a separate model from xAI's consumer-facing Grok models. The Grok family has produced controversial outputs, including political extremism and explicit content. A whistleblower alleges inadequate security testing and reports of an engineering team operating under duress during the rollout. Concerns remain about LLMs' lack of true understanding and reliability in code contexts.
"Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code," GitHub announced earlier this week. "Rollout will be gradual - check back soon if you don't see it yet. xAI models are also available in GitHub Copilot individual plans via Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), which lets you use your own xAI API key to access them."
xAI's Grok Code Fast 1 is the latest in the company's Grok family of large language models, perhaps best known for their tendency to spout right-wing gibberish - to the point of self-identifying itself, if a statistical stream of tokens created by putting vast troves of copyright content into a power-hungry mathematical blender and burping up the result could be capable of such a thing, as "MechaHitler."
While the mainstream Grok models have recently taken a turn for the pornographic with the introduction of a scantily clad anime "companion" who will happily talk to you in exchange for your subscription fee, Grok Code Fast 1 attempts to assist with code completion and generation tasks - and is tuned accordingly. It's a separate model from the one currently causing consternation in the consumer space,
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