GitHub said on 15 October 2026 that it will deprecate Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra across all GitHub Copilot experiences, including Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes and code completions, on 16 November 2026.
What it means for your work
Workflows and integrations pinned to these models need to move before 16 November. Organisations that turned off default model enablement have to enable the replacements themselves.
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Coding platforms are among the largest model buyers. A public switch on cost grounds shows pricing pressure on frontier labs.Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, its CEO saysThe AI-Assisted Software Development beat · TechCrunch
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A 24 GB-class agentic model with a 1M-token context is a practical option for teams that need to keep agent workloads on their own hardware.NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super, a 120B open vision-language model, is now runnable in OllamaThe AI-Assisted Software Development beat · Ollama / NVIDIA
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Laptops with 128GB of unified memory make running large open models on a single portable machine realistic. The performance figures are NVIDIA's own; only availability is independently confirmed.NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops for local AI go on sale from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSIThe AI-Assisted Software Development beat · NVIDIA
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