From the course: Practical GitHub Copilot
Copilot for Individuals vs. Copilot for Business - Github Copilot Tutorial
From the course: Practical GitHub Copilot
Copilot for Individuals vs. Copilot for Business
- [Instructor] Let's talk a bit more about the differences in the Copilot for Business version. Apps like Copilot work by sending information from a user's computer to the AI, which retains that information to help train the large language model. With regular Copilot, prompts that are generated when you pause while typing code, or prompts that are sent to the completions panel, or prompts that you create in the chat are retained. However, with Copilot for Business, the prompts are only transmitted in real time and are not retained. In the same way, suggestions that the model returns to GitHub are not retained. They're only transmitted in real time. It's important to note that some data is used by GitHub and Microsoft to improve and provide usage data to the service. This data is normally used to measure the impact of Copilot on users, sorting algorithms, and prompt crafting. It's also used to conduct research and experiments to improve how developers use the tools. This version also allows for more control over policies. So for example, you can control whether your organization allows matches of public code. You can purchase and assign seats to however many users you want and reassign seats as needed. You can also allow individual organization administrators to manage their own teams. GitHub for Business is also capable of working with proxies, which generally manage employees' access to websites and other security measures. Since once your administrator procures Copilot for you, the experience is pretty similar, for the rest of this course we'll be focusing on the individual version of Copilot.