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Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub sprung a surprise today as it revealed that its popular generative artificial intelligence coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, will no longer be powered exclusively by OpenAI’s GPT models. Instead, the company said at its annual GitHub Universe event that it’s adopting a multimodel approach, giving developers the opportunity to tap models from rival companies such as Anthropic PBC and Google LLC too. The revelation came alongside a host of other announcements, with GitHub launching a new AI tool called Spark that can automate much of the work that goes into building web applications, and more general updates to…