Southeast Asia has a Copilot in GitHub

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Hi there!

My sister is a software developer and her husband is a coder as well. In fact, there are at least 15 developers in my extended family, and there’s at least one in every family that resides in my apartment complex.

There’s even a joke in India that goes: If you throw a stone in the sky, it’ll land on a techie.

So I was not surprised when I learned that by 2027, India is set to overtake the US and account for the largest pool of developers on GitHub. But what surprised me was that Singapore overtook India to become the fastest-growing developer community in Asia Pacific.

In this week’s Big Story, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke tells Tech in Asia in an exclusive interview that he expects Singapore to have a significant number of developers in the long term. He highlighted as well how Indonesia has surpassed Japan to become the biggest GitHub developer community in APAC.

Dohmke also discusses GitHub’s goals for Copilot – its AI pair programmer – in the region and plans to increase paying users and tackle copyrights issues.

In our second Big Story, my colleague Huong talks about Vulcan Augmetics, a Vietnamese robotic prosthetics startup that builds affordable bionic hands for amputees. The company, which has set up shop in India and Singapore, is eyeing expansion to the Middle East, US, and Europe.

And finally in AI Odyssey, my colleague Deepti analyzes whether YouTube’s new guidelines will be effective enough in the age of generative AI.

— Lokesh

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THE BIG STORY

1️⃣ Exclusive: SEA crucial to GitHub’s growth strategy, CEO says

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke sees growing demand for the firm’s AI code generator Copilot and plans to reduce latency for users.

2️⃣ For this Vietnamese startup, prosthetic arms should be within everyone’s reach

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AI ODYSSEY

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FYI

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NEWS YOU SHOULD KNOW

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