How GitHub Copilot’s Co-Creator Raised $126 Million to Compete with His Former Employer

Recent interest in artificial intelligence has focused on large-language models that aim to do everything from writing Shakespearean poetry to solving math riddles. But more entrepreneurs and investors have begun to wonder if LLMs that specialize in one field or another can be better than general purpose LLMs like OpenAI’s.

One of those entrepreneurs, former GitHub CTO Jason Warner, may be uniquely positioned to answer this question. Warner helped create GitHub Copilot, the no. 1 AI-based coding …

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