🧑‍✈️GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million users

🧑‍💻 Greetings To All AI Learners. GitHub Copilot’s milestone of 20 million all-time users solidifies AI-assisted coding as a standard practice in software development. This massive adoption not only accelerates developer productivity worldwide but also strengthens Microsoft’s ecosystem lock-in, making it harder for competitors to catch up.

✨ In today’s AI News we will cover:

🛟 GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users.

🛟 Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future.

🛟 Kleiner Perkins-backed Ambiq pops on IPO debut.

🛟 How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28M for their AI marketing automation startup.

🛟 4 new AI tools.

GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users.

✈️ GitHub Copilot has surpassed 20 million all‑time users as announced by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in the company’s July 30, 2025 earnings call. A GitHub spokesperson confirmed that this milestone refers to total users, not necessarily active users.

💫 Highlights

💎 The user base has surged by 5 million new users in just the past quarter alone (up from 15 million reported in early May).

💎 Adoption is especially strong: 90% of Fortune 100 companies are reportedly using Copilot, and enterprise usage jumped around 75% quarter-over-quarter.

💎 AI-powered projects on GitHub have more than doubled over the past year, underscoring the growing role of AI in development workflows

💫 Significance

🚁 Mainstream Adoption of AI in Software Development

This milestone shows that AI coding assistants are no longer niche tools. With 20M+ developers having tried Copilot, AI is now a standard part of the development process for individuals and enterprises alike.

🚁 Enterprise Penetration & Productivity Impact

Copilot is being used by 90% of Fortune 100 companies, illustrating widespread enterprise trust in AI tools. Enterprises report significant productivity gains, with developers completing tasks faster and reducing time spent on repetitive coding.

Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future.

🥽 During Meta’s Q2 2025 earnings call, Zuckerberg asserted that AI-powered smart glasses will become the key user interface for interacting with AI. He went further: anyone who doesn't have such glasses may face a "cognitive disadvantage" in comparison to those who use them.

💫 Highlights

😎 He envisions AI glasses as the primary computing device of the future, surpassing smartphones and bringing “personal superintelligence” directly into daily life.

😎 These glasses will “see what you see, hear what you hear” and provide real-time assistance, enhancing memory, decision-making, and productivity

💫 Significance

✋ Computing Shift: If wearable AI becomes dominant, it redefines how humans interface with technology from phones to embedded AI assistants.

✋ Economic & Social Inequality: Those without access to AI-integrated wearables could be at a disadvantage in education, work, and social settings potentially amplifying digital divide concerns.

Kleiner Perkins-backed Ambiq pops on IPO debut.

🖋️ Ambiq’s strong IPO debut with a substantial pop and near doubling in market valuation reflects investor confidence in edge AI hardware, particularly those prioritizing energy efficiency. It validates rising demand for localized, battery-friendly smart processing, and sets a high bar for other AI-oriented chip startups.

💫 Highlights

💸 Ambiq priced its initial public offering at $24 per share, offering nearly 4 million shares, raising around $96 million before fees.

💸 It trades under the NYSE ticker “AMBQ”, with the listing debuting on July 30, 2025.

💫 Significance

💡 Edge AI Demand Is Real Ambiq’s ultra‑low‑power chips target compact devices like wearables, headphones, and medical tools areas where local, efficient AI compute is critical. The market for such edge-AI solutions is estimated at $13.9B in 2025, projected to grow beyond $22B by 2028.

💡 Investor Confidence in Energy-Efficient AI Ambiq’s proprietary SPOT (Sub-threshold Power Optimized Technology) platform delivers multiple-fold reductions in energy usage an attractive differentiator in a world increasingly focused on both AI capability and power consumption.

How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28M for their AI marketing automation startup.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Two UC Berkeley dropouts, Neil Tewari and James Jiao, turned a pain point in outdated marketing automation into Conversion, an AI-first platform built for mid‑size companies. By validating their idea with 160+ customer interviews and showing rapid traction (~$10M ARR), they convinced top VCs like Abstract Ventures to lead a $28M Series A.

💫 Highlights

🤼 Founders: Neil Tewari (CEO) and James Jiao (CTO), both dropped out of UC Berkeley in their sophomore year.

🤼 Startup: Conversion, an AI-powered marketing automation platform targeting mid‑size businesses stuck on legacy systems.

🤼 Funding: Raised a $28M Series A (total funding ~$30M) led by Abstract Ventures with participation from True Ventures and HOF Capital.

💫 Significance

🌍 Disrupting Legacy Stacks: Conversion isn’t targeting startups choosing platforms anew; instead it's focused on businesses entrenched in older systems. Its AI module promises seamless automation lead enrichment, personalized follow‑ups, and predictive workflows built-in from day one TechCrunch .

🌍 Momentum for Young Founders: This duo highlights a path where dropouts can build high‑growth AI businesses based on lean customer‑centric validation not credentials. Their lean startup living conditions (five roommates in tiny space) underscore Silicon Valley grit and focus

🤖 Lately.ai

Function: Turns longer form content like blogs or podcasts into dozens of social posts

🤖 GlamAI

Function: Virtual try-on for fashion and beauty e‑commerce: photo/video AR experiences.

🤖 Copyleaks

Function: AI‑content detection and plagiarism checking tools.

🤖 Qwen 2.5 Max

Function: Low‑cost open LLMs geared for content generation and academia.

🚀 Apple Enters The Generative AI Arena With Apple Intelligence.

Apple Intelligence marks a strategic evolution not a flashy AI launch. By embedding writing aids, image tools, contextual Siri, fitness coaching, and more across its ecosystem all with strong privacy safeguards Apple positions itself to scale AI capabilities at pace and trust.

🚀 Painting Created By AI Robot Sells For $1 Million.

Ai‑Da’s “AI God: Portrait of Alan Turing” marked a historic milestone becoming the most expensive artwork by a robot painter and prompting a new era in how we view artistic creation.

🚀 Microsoft's Azure cloud revenue surges as AI spending pays off.

Microsoft’s aggressive AI infrastructure spending (capex of $24.2B this quarter and $30B planned) is clearly paying off Azure revenue jumped 39% y/y to over $75B, helping Microsoft close the year at $76.4B in revenue, record profits, and a valuation approaching $4 trillion.

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