GitHub to Join Microsoft’s CoreAI Organization as Its CEO Departs Later This Year

GitHub, the leading developer platform Microsoft acquired back in 2018 will soon no longer operate independently. Thomas Dohmke, the CEO of the company since November 2021 announced today that he was leaving the company to go back to his startup roots. Following his departure later in 2025, GitHub will become integrated into Microsoft’s new CoreAI organization.

“With more than 1B repos and forks, and over 150 million developers, GitHub has never been stronger than it is today, Dohmke wrote today. “We have seen more open-source projects with more contributions every year. AI projects have doubled in the last year alone. And our presence in companies of any size is unmatched in the market.”

Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion back in 2018 was met with backlash from many developers, but the Redmond giant allowing the platform to continue to operate independently ultimately sent a reassuring message. GitHub continued to thrive in the following years, and GitHub Copilot, the company’s AI coding assistant has become really popular with over 20 million users.

“In just the last year, GitHub Copilot became the first multi-model solution at Microsoft, in partnership with Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. We enabled Copilot Free for millions and introduced the synchronous agent mode in VS Code as well as the asynchronous coding agent native to GitHub,” Dohmke emphasized today.

GitHub will soon share more details about what it means for the platform to join Microsoft’s CoreAI organization. Led by Jay Parikh, a former Vice President and Global Head of Engineering at Meta, this new engineering organization was announced earlier this year, and it’s tasked with developing the best AI platform, tools, and infrastructure to be successful throughout a new “AI platform shift” identified by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.