GitHub Copilot Surpasses 15 Million Users
GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant, has crossed a major milestone by surpassing 15 million users globally, marking a fourfold year-over-year growth. India continues to be a key contributor to this momentum, with more than 18 million developers now building on GitHub from the region, as per company updates.
Since the start of the year, GitHub has rolled out 85 updates to Copilot, including notable features such as MCP support, expanded model compatibility, “bring your own key” functionality, and intelligent next edit suggestions. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke credited the growth to the relentless innovation by GitHub’s and Visual Studio Code’s engineering teams. “With agent mode in VS Code, Copilot can now iterate on code, recognize errors, and fix them automatically,” he said.
The Copilot code review agent has reviewed over 8 million pull requests to date, showcasing its growing role in streamlining developer workflows. Other advanced Copilot agents such as Autofix are also gaining traction, helping developers address vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently.
“What started as the first AI pair programmer is now evolving into a Software Engineering (SWE) agent embedded directly into the coding environment,” Dohmke added. “GitHub is becoming the home not only for your repositories but also for your AI agents”.
Global companies like Twilio, Cisco, HPE, SkyScanner, and Target are actively adopting GitHub Copilot to infuse AI across the entire software development lifecycle.
The announcement comes as Microsoft, GitHub’s parent company, reported robust financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2025. Microsoft’s revenue rose 13% year-over-year to $70.1 billion, while net income increased by 18% to $25.8 billion. Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella highlighted the critical role of cloud and AI in driving productivity and business transformation. “From AI infrastructure and platforms to applications, we are innovating across the stack to deliver for our customers”, Nadella noted.
