
Our R&D team at GitHub Next has been working to move past the editor and evolve GitHub Copilot into a readily accessible AI assistant throughout the entire development lifecycle. And less than two years since its launch, GitHub Copilot is already writing 46% of code and helps developers code up to 55% faster.īut AI-powered auto-completion is just the starting point. GitHub Copilot started a new age of software development as an AI pair programmer that keeps developers in the flow by auto-completing comments and code. We partnered with OpenAI to create GitHub Copilot, the world’s first at-scale generative AI development tool made with OpenAI’s Codex model, a descendent of GPT-3. When we began experimenting with large language models several years ago, it quickly became clear that generative AI represents the future of software development.

At GitHub, our mission has always been to innovate ahead of the curve and give developers everything they need to be happier and more productive in a world powered by software.
