Microsoft is moving GitHub even more closely into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today. After nearly four years as CEO, Dohmke is leaving GitHub to \u201cbecome a startup founder again,\u201d and pursue opportunities outside of Microsoft and GitHub.<\/p>\n
GitHub has operated as a separate company ever since Microsoft acquired it<\/a> in 2018 for $7.5 billion, but Dohmke\u2019s departure is part of a big shakeup to the way GitHub operates. Microsoft isn\u2019t replacing Dohmke\u2019s CEO position, and the rest of GitHub\u2019s leadership team will now report more directly to Microsoft\u2019s CoreAI team.<\/p>\n \u201cGitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft\u2019s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon,\u201d says Dohmke in a memo<\/a> to GitHub employees today. \u201cI\u2019ll be staying through the end of 2025 to help guide the transition and am leaving with a deep sense of pride in everything we\u2019ve built as a remote-first organization spread around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s CoreAI team is a new engineering group led by former Meta executive Jay Parikh. It includes Microsoft\u2019s platform and tools division and Dev Div teams, with a focus on building an AI platform and tools for both Microsoft and its customers.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s change means GitHub no longer has a single leader, or CEO, and responsibility for GitHub will align more closely to the CoreAI leadership team. GitHub\u2019s reporting structure originally changed in 2021 when former CEO Nat Friedman stepped down, and Dohmke reported up to Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft\u2019s developer division. Liuson then started reporting to Parikh earlier this year with the formation of the CoreAI team.<\/p>\n Jay Parikh, head of CoreAI, described his vision of an AI agent factory in an interview with <\/a>Notepad<\/a> earlier this year, and how he is convincing the developer division of Microsoft to adopt AI. \u201cJust like how Bill [Gates] had this idea of Microsoft being a bunch of software developers building a bunch of software, I want our platform, for any enterprise or any organization, to be able to be the thing they turn into their own agent factory,\u201d said Parikh.<\/p>\n