GitHub Retires GitHub Models

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GitHub's changelog entry on 2026-07-30 announced that GitHub Models is now retired, closing the hosted model-catalog and playground service that let developers experiment with and prototype against multiple LLMs directly from GitHub. The same changelog day also carried 'Limit remote control to managed devices' for Copilot and the monthly Copilot updates for Visual Studio and VS Code. For builders who prototyped against Models endpoints, this is a migration event rather than an announcement to skim — the surrounding Copilot changelog items indicate GitHub is consolidating its AI surface area onto Copilot and Azure AI Foundry rather than maintaining a separate model playground.