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GitHub unites OpenAI, Google and Anthropic AI agents in one place
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 27, 2023.
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Microsoft’s GitHub unit on Tuesday announced Agent HQ, a new “mission control” interface that will allow software developers to manage coding agents from multiple vendors on a single platform.
An artificial intelligence agent is a tool that can independently complete tasks on behalf of a user. Several companies, including GitHub, have built and released popular agents that are specifically designed for programming.
Developers have a range of new capabilities at their fingertips because of these agents, but it can require a lot of effort to keep track of them all individually, said GitHub COO Kyle Daigle.
Developers will now be able to manage agents from GitHub, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI and Cognition in one place with Agent HQ.
“We want to bring a little bit of order to the chaos of innovation,” Daigle told CNBC in an interview. “With so many different agents, there’s so many different ways of kicking off these asynchronous tasks, and so our big opportunity here is to bring this all together.”
Agent HQ users will be able to access a command center where they can assign, steer and monitor the work of multiple agents.
That means they’ll be able to see what their agents are working on and course correct in real time if they get off track.
The third-party agents will begin rolling out to GitHub Copilot subscribers in the coming months, but Copilot Pro+ users will be able to access OpenAI Codex in VS Code Insiders this week, the company said.
GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and it allows users to store, share and collaborate on code. Its platform now supports more than 180 million developers, and the company said it is growing at its fastest rate ever.
“This is an era of abundance for AI and we just want to make sure that that abundance doesn’t turn to chaos,” Daigle said. “We can allow you to have a great experience using all of these tools via a very open GitHub platform.”
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