2021 CE
GitHub Copilot
Artificial intelligence · Machine learning
GitHub announces Copilot as a coding assistant, foreshadowing everyday generative AI inside the development environment. The technical preview integrated code suggestions into programming work, subject to human review.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-20
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- github.blog (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2021-06-29
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2022-02-23
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
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- Access date
- 2026-09-20
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