New Delhi: Microsoft-owned AI-powered platform Github now has 13.2 million developers in India, of which 3.5 million have joined the platform from the country this year alone. Developers in India are the second largest contributors to generative AI projects on GitHub globally.
With this continued and significant growth, GitHub estimates that India will overtake the US in total developer population by 2027.
“India’s growing developer community is at the heart of the country’s position as an innovation powerhouse. Sharyn Napier, vice president of APAC at GitHub, said it is exciting to see Indian developers making significant contributions to generic AI projects on GitHub, which highlights India’s growing importance in the AI landscape, as well as how developers from the country are directly driving AI across the world. Shaping the future of innovation.
The 2023 edition of GitHub’s State of the Octoverse report revealed that generative AI is driving a significant and global increase in individual contributors to generative AI projects with a 148 percent year-on-year (YoY) increase.
Notably, the US, India, and Germany lead among developer communities, while other regions including the UK, Japan, Hong Kong, and France follow.
India’s developer community has experienced steady year-on-year growth, including a 36 percent increase in 2023.
India is building its digital public infrastructure with open materials – from software code to AI models – to improve digital payments and ecommerce systems for itself and other countries.
