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GitHub Copilot auto model selection now offers three tiers: efficiency, balance, and intelligence. The tier you choose reflects how you want auto to weigh cost, quality, and response time.
GitHub Copilot auto model selection now offers three tiers: efficiency, balance, and intelligence. The changelog says you can choose the tier that reflects how you want auto to weigh cost, quality, and response time. That is the new capability: a way to set the trade-off priority for automatic model selection. The source does not say how the tiers perform or what models they use.
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This adds a user-facing control for the cost-quality trade-off in automatic model selection, though the evidence does not show how much difference the tiers make.
What the reporting says: GitHub Copilot auto model selection now offers three tiers: efficiency, balance, and intelligence, and that you choose the tier that reflects how you want auto to weigh cost, quality, and response time.
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