Overview

• Thomas Dohmke announced in a blog post that he will leave GitHub to start a new venture and remain as CEO through the end of 2025 to oversee the handover.
• Microsoft confirmed it will not appoint a successor and will integrate GitHub into its CoreAI organization, ending its semi-independent status.
• Under CoreAI led by Jay Parikh, GitHub’s leadership will report to developer division president Julia Liuson and AI platform vice president Asha Sharma.
• The reorganization places GitHub’s AI offerings—especially Copilot, now used by roughly 20 million developers—at the center of Microsoft’s broader AI platform strategy.
• Rising competition from AI-first coding tools and ongoing concerns over code accuracy and repository data exposures factored into Microsoft’s decision.