Microsoft’s GitHub chief is leaving, competition ramps up in AI coding

Microsoft’s Faced with a competition from artificial intelligence -supported coding tools, the Github unit loses its leader and the company does not immediately call a successor.

Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Github since 2021, joined Microsoft in 2015 by acquiring the previous start Hockeyapp. Microsoft purchased Github for $ 7.5 billion in 2018, and Dohmke started this business as a product chief in mid -2021. Months later, he changed Nat Friedman to Github CEO.

One memory On Monday, Dohmke’nin a blog post shared as a blog post, Github left to “re -founder”, but until the end of the year, “to guide the transition”, he said.

In January, Microsoft announced the establishment of CEO Satya Nadella’s artificial intelligence infrastructure and development of tens of billions of dollars annually and announced the establishment of the Coreai Platform and Tools Group under the direction of former commodity manager Jay Parikh. Github became part of this group.

“Github and the leadership team will continue to work as part of Coreai organization of Microsoft and more details will be shared soon.”

According to a message that Parikh looked at the employees on Monday, three senior Github executives – Vladimir Fedorov will report to Kyle Daigle and Elizabeth Pemmerl – Microsoft Coreai director Julia Liuson.

A Github spokesman refused to give additional details.

In 2021, under the leadership of Friedman, Github launched Copilot in collaboration with Microsoft and Openai. The proposal, which can propose code for the addition of developers to their projects, has turned by a number of customers to make their engineers more productive.

Github claims to have more than 150 million registered developers in October 2021.

As a code sharing platform, Github has made a start in AI due to its popularity, while a series of rapidly growing competitors appeared in the Vibe coding world, which is considered to quickly generate code for applications and websites in AI models. The cursor creator, hired by CEO, includes Anysphere, replit and Windsurf. Google As part of the AI talent agreement of $ 2.4 billion last month.

A pile of overflowing developer survey Approximately 76% of the participants in May and June show that Microsoft used the Visual Studio code as code editor. He said roughly 18% of the cursories, about 10% of Antropic’s Claude code and 5% of Windsurf.

In the same part of the survey last year, Claude code, cursor and wind surf did not surf.

Microsoft still sees the growth of Copilot. Nadella said that 20 million people use it last month, and Copilot Enterprise said the number of customers increased by 75% in the quarter.

“I’ve been convinced that the world will soon see a billion improvers provided by billions of AI agents, each of which has suppressed human creativity to a new golden software.” “When that day comes, we will know where the road started: with Github.”

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