# Inside GitHub: Working with the LLMs behind GitHub Copilot | The GitHub Blog

<https://github.blog/2023-05-17-inside-github-working-with-the-llms-behind-github-copilot/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Fairly shallow article but interesting to read about the progression of approach and model that GitHub Copilot used with OpenAI. It is interesting how they learned to provide additional data to the LLM in order to get better results. I found the file path an interesting one that would not be obvious.

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