Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced at Microsoft’s earnings call that their GitHub Copilot has hit 20 million all-time users. Microsoft also reported that GitHub Copilot is among the most popular AI coding tools offered today and is used by 90 per cent of Fortune 100 companies. The tech giant also added that the product’s growth among enterprises as their customers has risen by 75 per cent in comparison to their last quarter.
In the previous quarter, Microsoft reported that GitHub all-time users were 15 million, which indicates that over five million people tried this AI tool in the last three months.
Microsoft and GitHub don’t display figures for many of the 20 million users who continue to use this AI coding tool daily.
Nadella also mentioned that GitHub Copilot was a larger business than all of GitHub was when Microsoft acquired it in 2018. In the year since, it seems GitHub Copilot’s growth rate has continued in a positive direction. And AI coding tools are rising in popularity, and they seem to be one of the few AI products generating notable revenue.
Compared to AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, which have a user base of a hundred million users, on the contrary, these AI coding tools might have a tiny user base. The only reason is quite simple - software engineering is more niche compared to general information queries.
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