GitHub launches Copilot for Enterprise

GitHub has announced the general availability of GitHub Copilot Enterprise, the new platform designed to help enterprise customers write code using the power of generative AI.

GitHub Copilot integrates generative AI into the GitHub editor, and Copilot for Enterprise builds on this by allowing enterprises to customise the copilot to their own organisation’s code and processes.

The new platform is designed to help developers streamline code navigation and comprehension to enable faster feature implementation and issue resolution.

Customers will be able to use the platform to quickly access organisational knowledge and best practices from the GitHub community, and Copilot Enterprise’s capability to analyse pull request diffs will allow code reviewers to quickly get up to speed with proposed changes for faster delivery of feedback.

The new platform is available to all organisations for US$39 per user per month. It can be accessed by customers of the GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke said the platform will also benefit from integration with Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

“As the technology landscape continues to rapidly evolve, we are expanding capabilities of GitHub Copilot to not only understand your own internal knowledge bases, but to bring in the latest information from the internet as well,” he said. “By integrating Bing search directly into Copilot Chat — available in beta for GitHub Copilot Enterprise — you can find the latest software development-related information like updates to CSS or JavaScript frameworks. This means GitHub Copilot can now help developers explore their curiosity and gain outside knowledge near instantly, at scale.”

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