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Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot - Microsoft
Publisher description: Coming soon, GitHub Copilot will determine when a task is best handled by on-device intelligence and when it should leverage cloud-scale models.
NewsAPI | Oct 7, 2026 | Lisa Brown Jaloza
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Local inference starts with a memory budget. GitHub Copilot is adding two ways to use local models across the GitHub Copilot CLI, Copilot app, and VS Code. Get started with local development with GitHub Copilot.
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