"GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon," Dohmke wrote. "I’ll be staying through the end of 2025 to help guide the transition and am leaving with a deep sense of pride in everything we’ve built as a remote-first organization spread around the world."

Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, will step down to launch a new startup as the platform reaches record growth driven by Microsoft's Copilot.

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced he is resigning as CEO of the company as Microsoft begins to bring GitHub closer to its CoreAI team. Following the move, Microsoft will not appoint a new GitHub CEO and the company will no longer have a single leader, instead reporting more directly into its CoreAI division.