GitHub opens Copilot to enterprise users in Australia

GitHub has opened all Copilot features to GitHub Enterprise customers without requiring a separate Copilot licence. The move comes as GitHub reports sharp growth in Australian developer activity on its platform.

Enterprise customers will now pay for AI credits rather than a standalone Copilot subscription, while administrators will decide who can use the tools within their organisations.

The change comes alongside a broader update to GitHub's platform and infrastructure as it adapts to heavier use of AI agents in software development. This year, GitHub has added 4 million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of storage, while reworking its Git architecture to handle a much higher rate of code pushes.

At the product level, Copilot Fusion is now generally available. The system selects which AI model to use for a task, and can switch between models or assign different stages of work to different models.

GitHub has also introduced Copilot Projects, which gives users a persistent workspace for agent-based work across multiple repositories, and updated Copilot Automations so workflows can learn from previous outcomes. It has also added a new Copilot Code Review Max option for more detailed code review.

Australian growth

New figures from GitHub show Australia remains a fast-growing market for the platform. More than 2.57 million developers in Australia were building on GitHub by the end of the second quarter, up 8.6% from the previous quarter and 30.0% from a year earlier.

Australian developers uploaded code to GitHub more than 5.26 million times during the quarter, up 40.9% quarter on quarter and 110.8% year on year. Developers and organisations in Australia now own more than 4.8 million repositories on the platform, up 5.3% from the previous quarter and 18.9% from a year earlier.

The United States, the United Kingdom and India were Australia's top three collaborators on GitHub. JavaScript remained the country's most widely used language by unique developers uploading code, followed by Shell and Python.

Some of the clearest shifts were in infrastructure-related languages. TypeScript rose to fourth place from 11th in 2020, while Dockerfile and Makefile also ranked in the top six. Rust moved from 30th to 15th over the same period, PLpgSQL climbed from 42nd to 17th, and PowerShell rose from 16th to ninth. PHP, Ruby and Java all fell in the rankings.

GitHub's industry breakdown for Australian public repositories created this year placed Information first, followed by Educational Services, Professional, Scientific and Technical Services, Finance and Insurance, and Retail Trade.

Global picture

The Australian figures were released alongside new global usage data showing how quickly development activity has grown on the platform. Developers pushed code 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than in 2024 and 2025 combined.

By September, more than 40% of pull requests on GitHub started with an agent, up from 17% in March. GitHub also said 61% of Copilot users now use more than one model.

Software development activity is also spreading further into sectors outside traditional software. Public repositories linked to mining, construction, health care and agriculture have each grown several times over since 2022.

Jay Parikh, Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft, outlined the company's view of how developer work is changing.

"Our jobs as developers are changing. In a couple of years, we've gone from writing every line of code to working with AI assistants to orchestrating fleets of agents. But the goal hasn't changed: ship completed software work. A feature, a bug fix, a security fix. Completed work, not more code, is the output that matters," Parikh said.

He said GitHub is adjusting both its products and its back-end systems to reflect that shift.

"All of this depends on a foundation that's fast, reliable, and built to scale. Agents are changing the volume and shape of software development. Adding capacity matters, but capacity alone won't get us there. We've also had to change the architecture," Parikh said.

Parikh also linked the infrastructure work to a broader view of the software market.

"Our jobs are changing, but developers are more important than ever. I think all the software we've written to date will amount to less than 1% of the software we'll write in the next five years. The opportunity isn't just to produce more code. It's to solve problems we couldn't solve before," Parikh said.