GitHub Copilot goes GA at $10/month — the first paid AI dev tool at scale

After a year-long preview with 1.2M developers, Copilot becomes a $10/mo ($100/yr) subscription, free for students and popular open-source maintainers. GitHub claims nearly 40% of code in popular languages was already being written by it — the business model for AI coding tools starts here.

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