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GitHub

Updated: 2026-07-22

At a Glance

Hi, I'm Mona โ€” the face of GitHub, watching over developers worldwide.

Today's topic, GitHub, is the world's largest AI-native developer platform โ€” home to 180 million+ developers.

The Evolution of GitHub

Looking back at GitHubโ€™s journey reveals where we are today โ”€โ”€

2008 Pull Request Industry standard for collab 2012 GitHub Enterprise Management & security at scale 2019 Actions / GHAS CI/CD & DevSecOps in your workflow 2021 GitHub Copilot World's first AI coding assistant 2025 Agent HQ AI autonomously powers dev โ˜… Today's main focus

The GitHub experience

GitHub brings the entire software lifecycle onto one platform โ”€โ”€

GitHub Integrated platform One enterprise-grade platform Developer collaboration Best-in-class experience Security everywhere Protected at every stage AI everywhere Copilot across the SDLC

AI Developer Platform

From Plan โ†’ Code โ†’ Review โ†’ Test & Security โ†’ Operate, AI on GitHub supports the entire SDLC end-to-end.

โ–ฎ PLAN โ–ถ GitHub Projects โ–ถ Issues/Discussions โ–ถ Plan mode โ–ถ MCP โ–ถ Skills/Instructions ... โ–ฎ CODE โ–ถ Copilot Chat โ–ถ Cloud Agent โ–ถ CLI โ–ถ Copilot App โ–ถ Codespaces โ–ฎ REVIEW โ–ถ Pull Requests โ–ถ Code Review โ–ถ Playwright โ–ถ Rubber Duck โ–ฎ TEST & SECURE โ–ถ Actions โ–ถ Autofix โ–ถ Code Quality โ–ถ Code Scanning โ–ถ Secret Scanning โ–ฎ OPERATE โ–ถ Agentic Workflows โ–ถ Copilot Memory โ–ถ Copilot Metrics โ–ถ REST/GraphQL API โ–ถ Packages/Registry

GitHub by the Numbers

  • GitHub developers: 240 million+ worldwide (internal metric / 2026)
  • GitHub Copilot paid users: 49 million+ (internal metric / 2026)
  • Enterprise customers: 77,000+ (2024)
  • ~90% of the Fortune 100 have adopted Copilot (2025)
  • ~42% market share in paid AI coding tools (2025)

Platform Activity Is Surging

โ–ฎ CURRENT SCENARIO โ”€โ”€ Development activity on GitHub is accelerating at an unprecedented pace.

โ–ฎ COMMITS 1B 2025 actual 14B 2026 pace Now 275M commits/week โ”€โ”€ if growth stays linear โ€ป SPOILER: IT WON'T (it'll go higher) โ–ฎ ACTIONS MINUTES / WEEK 500M 2023 1B 2025 2.1B โ˜… 2026/06/24 Over 4x in two years โ”€โ”€ and still climbing

Development Output Is Doubling Too

โ–ฎ MORE NUMBERS โ”€โ”€ Pull request merges and repo creation are surging in the AI era too.

Source: GitHub Octoverse 2025 (monthly average; 2026 is a run-rate projection)

โ–ฎ PULL REQUESTS MERGED / MO 28M 2023 43M 2025 90M 2026 pace ~2x into 2026 โ”€โ”€ AI ships more PRs โ–ฎ NEW REPOS / MONTH 7M 2023 10M 2025 20M 2026 pace ~2x into 2026 โ”€โ”€ new projects exploding

Industry Recognition

Third-party analysts also recognize GitHub as the leader in AI coding.

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quadrantChart
    title Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents (2026)
    x-axis Low Vision --> Completeness of Vision
    y-axis Low Execution --> Ability to Execute
    quadrant-1 Leaders
    quadrant-2 Challengers
    quadrant-3 Niche Players
    quadrant-4 Visionaries
    GitHub: [0.65, 0.77]
    Cursor: [0.71, 0.75]
    Anthropic: [0.66, 0.73]
    OpenAI: [0.71, 0.71]
    Cognition: [0.47, 0.61]
    Google: [0.42, 0.58]
    Amazon Web Services: [0.48, 0.55]
    Alibaba Cloud: [0.45, 0.54]
    Atlassian: [0.45, 0.45]
    Tabnine: [0.51, 0.42]
    BytePlus: [0.18, 0.32]
    JetBrains: [0.21, 0.27]