GitHub Copilot Agents Come to Teams and Slack
GitHub shipped Copilot agentic coding sessions into Microsoft Teams and Slack on August 21, 2026, letting teams direct and review an agent from chat.
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash: Microsoft's Cheaper Copilot Model
Microsoft shipped MAI-Code-1.1-Flash on August 11, 2026, a small coding model now in GitHub Copilot at a quarter of the cost of the June release, with native vision and a 22 percent Terminal-Bench gain.
GitHub Copilot Auto-Routes Models to Cut Token Cost
GitHub Copilot now routes each task to the best available model automatically and caches repeated prompt context to cut token cost.
MAI-Code-1-Flash: Microsoft's New Coding Model in Copilot
Microsoft used its Build 2026 keynote on June 2 to ship MAI-Code-1-Flash, an in-house coding model that is live today inside the GitHub Copilot model picker for Free, Pro, Pro+, and Max tiers.