/PRZWT/At the 2025 World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, Microsoft's Smart GitHub Copilot co-pilot ® won the "Leading Technology Award", an honor that highlights its global leading position in the integration of AI and software development. As an important international award in the Internet industry, the World Internet Conference Leading Technology Award aims to recognize outstanding achievements that have driven technological change and led the direction of innovation in the past year.
Dr. Qi Zhang, Senior Vice President of Microsoft and President of Microsoft AI Asia Pacific, attended the award ceremony on behalf of Microsoft and delivered a speech. He said, "The Smart GitHub Copilot Co-pilot ® has ushered in a new era of AI programming featuring human-machine complementary collaboration and multiple times the improvement in programming efficiency, and will reshape the way humans interact with code."
Dr. Qi Zhang, Senior Vice President of Microsoft and President of Microsoft AI Asia Pacific, delivered his acceptance speech
The following is the original text of Dr. Zhang Qi's speech
"Smart GitHub Copilot Co-pilot ® : The New Generation of Programming Agents"
As the first generative AI programming agent in the global information technology industry, the Smart GitHub Copilot Co-pilot ® has been upgraded from a code completion tool to an all-round development manager and has been adopted by over 20 million developers worldwide.
Microsoft continues to drive the evolution of the intelligent GitHub Copilot co-pilot ®, which has now integrated multiple models including GPT-5 and launched a programming agent with autonomous iteration capabilities, significantly enhancing development efficiency and code quality.
GitHub Models has added prompt management, lightweight evaluation, and enterprise-level control functions. Users can directly test and switch to top industry models in mainstream ides such as GitHub.com, VS Code, JetBrains, and Xcode without switching platforms.
Microsoft attaches great importance to open, collaborative and AI-driven software development. Previously, it open-sourced the intelligent GitHub Copilot co-pilot ® dialogue assistant in VS Code, integrating AI-driven scalability into the open-source code repository of the world's most popular development tool.
The Smart GitHub Copilot co-pilot ® has ushered in a new era of AI programming featuring human-machine complementary collaboration and multiple times the improvement in programming efficiency, and will reshape the way humans interact with code. It has been widely adopted by 90% of the Fortune 100 companies worldwide and has continuously achieved breakthrough results in multiple fields such as education, scientific research and enterprise application.
In the future, the smart GitHub Copilot co-pilot ® will empower hundreds of millions of developers, enabling code to unleash creativity and productivity. Microsoft will also be committed to building an open, inclusive and responsible developer AI platform to facilitate global innovation and technological progress.
