As the global AI competition intensifies, Big Tech giants have increasingly started to conduct internal restructuring. In a fresh development, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced that he is stepping down from his role. In a memo to the community, Dohmke said, GitHub will now be part of Microsoft’s CoreAI unit.
Dohmke, post stepping down, plans to step into the next chapter of his career as a startup founder, he said on Monday, August 11.
“From building mobile developer tools, to running the acquisition of GitHub alongside Nat Friedman, to becoming GitHub’s CEO and guiding us into the age of Copilot and AI, it has been the ride of a lifetime,” he noted, summing up his journey with the platform.
For now, Dohmke plans to stay with the platform through the end of 2025 to help the platform’s transition.
“With more than 1B repos and forks, and over 150 million developers, GitHub has never been stronger than it is today,” he highlighted. “AI projects have doubled in the last year alone. And our presence in companies of any size is unmatched in the market.”
He also added that more details on GitBub’s absorption into Microsoft’s CoreAI team will be shared “soon”. Launched recently, this unit will strategize the AI roadmap for the Windows-maker.
GitHub was launched in 2008 as a platform for tech developers to connect, create, store, and share their codes for community collaboration. In 2018, Microsoft purchased the platform for $7.5 billion. In 2021, Dohmke replaced Nat Friedman as the CEO of the platform.