Dive Brief:
- GitHub will release a new offering of its Copilot tool aimed at businesses, the company announced Wednesday during its annual conference, GitHub Universe.
- "Coming soon, businesses can purchase and manage seat licenses for GitHub Copilot for their employees," said CEO Thomas Dohmke in a blog post .
- The company did not indicate a timeline for the launch, but it created a waitlist for businesses interested in early access.
Dive Insight:
First launched in a private beta in June 2021, GitHub's Copilot uses the GPT-3 engine OpenAI Codex to suggest individual lines of code or entire functions to software developers.
The solution, trained on code available on public repositories, became generally available in June and added 400,000 subscribers in the following month, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, said in a July earnings call for the period ending June 30 .
With Copilot for businesses, the company aims to plug its platform closer to enterprise software development.
The new offering "will give businesses the proven benefits of core AI-assisted technologies, as well as added admin controls for various GitHub Copilot settings on behalf of your organization," Dohmke said in the blog post.
The product joins the sprawling category of AI software solutions. Spending on this category of software spend will reach $64 billion by 2025, up from $33 billion in 2021, according to Forrester projections .
