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2024 was a breakthrough year for AI, both globally and here in Australia. Contributions to public generative AI projects on GitHub in Australia surged by 65% in 2024, signalling a promising trajectory for the nation’s productivity and economic growth. We saw businesses transition from experimenting with AI to adopting and implementing it, unlocking the benefits of enhanced productivity, competitiveness, and growth. As we enter 2025, here are my AI predictions and the key opportunities for Australia to accelerate its AI journey.

New Relic has unveiled the New Relic Intelligent Observability Platform, which the company says transforms observability from ensuring uptime and reliability into a key driver of business growth and developer velocity for enterprises worldwide.

GitHub vice president for Asia Pacific, India, Japan and China Sharryn Napier has now been in the top job for two years, with remarkable 20% growth year on year as the company leads the charge to AI.

Global software development hub GitHub has announced code scanning autofix is available in public beta for all GitHub Advanced Security customers. The tool helps developers remediate over two-thirds of supported alerts with little or no editing.

New Relic APJ chief architect Peter Marelas looked at the role of AI in observability, including that of the company's Grok generative AI observability assistant, during the company's FutureStack event in Melbourne this week.

GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered programmer's assistant, is now generally available in a business edition.

GitHub's AI-powered Copilot was made generally available in June this year. GitHub has investigated and quantified the impact on developer productivity, finding a massive 87% of developers found it preserved their mental energy, and 74% experienced an increase in overall daily workflow satisfaction.