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GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now reached more than 20 million users, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the company\u2019s earnings call<\/a> Wednesday. A GitHub spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that this number represents \u201call-time users.\u201d<\/p>\n That means five million people have tried out GitHub Copilot for the first time in the last three months; the company reported in April the tool had reached 15 million users<\/a>. Microsoft and GitHub don\u2019t report how many of these 20 million people have continued to use the AI coding tool on a monthly or daily basis \u2014 though those metrics are likely far lower.<\/p>\n Microsoft also reported GitHub Copilot, which is among the most popular AI coding tools offered today, is used by 90% of the Fortune 100. The product\u2019s growth among enterprise customers has also grown about 75% compared to last quarter, according to the company.<\/p>\n AI coding tools are rising in popularity, and they seem to be one of the few AI products generating notable revenue. In 2024, Nadella said GitHub Copilot was a larger business<\/a> than all of GitHub was when Microsoft acquired it in 2018. In the year since, it seems GitHub Copilot\u2019s growth rate has continued in a positive direction.<\/p>\n The world\u2019s most popular AI coding tools still have tiny user bases compared to AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, which attract hundreds of millions of users every month. Of course, software engineering is more niche than the general informational queries offered by AI chatbots. <\/p>\n That said, software engineers and their employers seem to be willing to pay a premium for AI coding tools. And with Microsoft\u2019s long list of enterprise customers and GitHub\u2019s ecosystem of developers, GitHub Copilot is well positioned to dominate the market for enterprise AI coding tools.<\/p>\n Cursor, another popular AI coding tool, wants to challenge GitHub Copilot in the enterprise, and it\u2019s been scooping up talent<\/a> from fledgling AI startups to do so. Cursor reportedly had more than a million people<\/a> using its product every day in March, according to Bloomberg. At that time, the company generated about $200 million in annualized recurring revenue. Today, Cursor\u2019s ARR is more than $500 million<\/a>, suggesting there are now a lot more people using its products everyday.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> While GitHub Copilot and Cursor initially sought to tackle different parts of the developer experience, they\u2019re steadily converging into similar products. <\/p>\n Both companies have recently introduced AI agents to review code<\/a> and catch bugs<\/a> introduced by humans. Github and Cursor are also both trying to create AI agents that automate programmer workflows<\/a>, allowing developers to offload tasks altogether. Nadella said during Wednesday\u2019s earnings call that GitHub was seeing great momentum with their AI coding agents.<\/p>\n Beyond Cursor, GitHub has an array of well-capitalized competitors that would like to sell AI coding tools to the enterprise. <\/p>\n There\u2019s Google \u2014 which acquired the leaders of AI coding startup Windsurf<\/a> \u2014 as well as Cognition, the maker of Devin that subsequently acquired the rest of Windsurf\u2019s team<\/a>. That\u2019s not to mention OpenAI and Anthropic, which are both building out their own AI coding offerings powered by in-house AI models, Codex and Claude Code respectively, in an attempt to win the market.<\/p>\n The nascent space is quickly heating up into one of AI\u2019s most competitive markets. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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