Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk's xAI, bringing early access to the company's Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into GitHub Copilot. However, a whistleblower has claimed that the rollout suffers from inadequate security testing and an engineering team operating under duress.

"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."

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