GitHub Chief Executive Thomas Dohmke said on Monday he will leave the Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform to launch a new startup, capping a tenure that included a major push into artificial intelligence through the company's Copilot products.

Concurrently, Microsoft is reorganising GitHub’s structure, according to a report by Axios. The company has decided not to appoint a successor CEO. Instead, GitHub will be folded into its new CoreAI organization, with leadership reporting to Microsoft executives, including Julia Liuson, overseeing GitHub operations, and Jay Parikh, head of CoreAI.

Microsoft will bring GitHub into its CoreAI division with the announcement this morning that GitHub CEO Thomas