2020 Email Requesting GPT-3 Access Revealed a Copilot-Like Idea

An early user resurfaced a 2020 email requesting GPT-3 access from OpenAI's Greg Brockman, in which one proposed idea closely resembled GitHub Copilot, launched a year later. The anecdote is seen as an early grassroots vision of AI coding assistants.

2026-08-18 ~ 2026-08-18 · 2 related posts

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