GitHub CEO: AI assistants have become a cash cow for companies

We’re happy with Copilot’s growing profits.

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In the latest news, GitHub CEO Thomas Domke revealed in an interview with the media that Copilot has “become a money-making tool”.

Domke even went so far as to say that the cost of using Copilot for users is lower than what GitHub charges from it.

Copilot is an AI programming assistant tool launched by GitHub, allowing developers to ask code questions in the compiler, and even debug directly, which has been very popular since its release.

However, the explosion of the product does not mean that it makes money, in fact, there are not a few people who doubt whether GitHub is really profitable.

Previously, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that GitHub loses an average of $80 per user per month. GitHub has denied the claim.

However, the official did not give a specific profit figure, but revealed some recent update plans.

In this regard, analyst Reed Albergotti put it this way:

Every time GitHub releases an update, the cost of computation skyrockets, but Copilot has never raised the price, indicating that GitHub has other ways to monetize the update or would not have rolled out these updates so quickly.

So what updates have GitHub revealed this time?

Copliot Chat official version to be launched next month

The first is that the official version of Copilot Chat will be unveiled next month.

Copilot Chat was released in March this year, and on the basis of the original Copilot, developers can directly use natural language to talk to Copilot to solve problems.

However, it was not until July that the public beta version was launched for enterprise users, and the test drive version for individual users was not launched until September.

After the official version is launched, the price for individual users will remain the same, which is still $10 per month or $100 per year.

For enterprise users, GitHub will also launch a new subscription plan.

The main difference between this plan and the original Enterprise Edition is that users can deploy code to the cloud instead of having to duplicate it locally.

Enterprise users can also build an internal knowledge base, form a personalized Copilot Chat, and even fine-tune the underlying model.

The new plan is priced at $39 per month and is expected to go live in February.

GitHub also revealed that Copilot will also be introduced to the GitHub mobile app, and that support for the JetBrains family of IDEs will be added in addition to Visual Studio and VSCode.

In the long term, GitHub said it will launch the Copilot Workspace work platform, which will “build a bridge for natural language programming”.

CEO Domke says Copilot Workspace is like having a programming conversation with a partner.

According to reports, Workspace will go live “sometime” next year.

In addition, GitHub will launch a partner program within Workspace and announce the first list of partners.

Third-party development tool companies will make plug-ins for Copilot, and eventually form a Copilot ecosystem.

The above is the latest news about Copilot revealed by GitHub, as for more details, it is better to look forward to the release of the official product~

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