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Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.

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Nutanix has released an open-source Model Context Protocol server that lets AI assistants, including GitHub Copilot, interact with Nutanix Cloud Platform through Prism V4 APIs.

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