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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke to Step Down, Plans Return to Founding Role

August 11, 2025 - GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he will step down from his position at the Microsoft-owned developer platform by the end of the year. In a blog post, Dohmke revealed plans to “become a founder again” after his departure.

According to Axios, Microsoft does not plan to directly replace the CEO role. Instead, GitHub’s leadership team will report to multiple Microsoft executives moving forward.

“With more than 1B repos and forks, and over 150 million developers, GitHub has never been stronger than it is today,” Dohmke wrote. “We have seen more open-source projects with more contributions every year. AI projects have doubled in the last year alone. And our presence in companies of any size is unmatched in the market.”

Dohmke’s decision comes as GitHub faces intensifying competition from rivals such as Google and Cursor, particularly in the race to develop advanced AI tools for programmers.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/github-ceo-to-step-down/

GitHub Copilot Surpasses 20 Million All-Time Users

July 30, 2025 - GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant from Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now exceeded 20 million all-time users, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday's earnings call. A GitHub spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that this figure represents cumulative users since launch.

This milestone comes just three months after GitHub Copilot hit 15 million users, signaling an additional five million new users in that period. However, Microsoft and GitHub have not disclosed how many of those users are active on a daily or monthly basis.

Microsoft reported that GitHub Copilot is currently in use by 90% of the Fortune 100. Additionally, enterprise adoption of the tool has surged by approximately 75% quarter-over-quarter.

AI coding assistants are emerging as one of the few AI segments generating significant revenue. In 2024, Nadella stated that GitHub Copilot had become a larger business than GitHub itself was at the time of Microsoft’s 2018 acquisition. Its growth trajectory has continued upward since then.

Despite their growth, AI coding tools maintain relatively small user bases compared to mainstream AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, which serve hundreds of millions of users monthly. Nonetheless, software engineers and organizations appear willing to invest in these specialized tools. With Microsoft’s enterprise reach and GitHub’s developer community, GitHub Copilot is well-positioned to lead in the enterprise AI coding space.

Rival AI coding platform Cursor is also vying for dominance, particularly in the enterprise segment. Cursor reportedly had over one million daily users in March and was generating around $200 million in annualized recurring revenue at the time, per Bloomberg. That figure has since grown to more than $500 million, indicating a rapid user expansion.

Though originally targeting different aspects of the developer workflow, GitHub Copilot and Cursor have increasingly evolved into similar offerings. Both now feature AI agents capable of reviewing code and detecting bugs, as well as tools designed to automate programming tasks entirely. Nadella noted that GitHub is seeing strong momentum with these AI coding agents.

Beyond Cursor, GitHub faces competition from major players including Google, which acquired the core team behind AI coding startup Windsurf. Cognition, the company behind Devin, has also taken on the remaining Windsurf team. Additionally, OpenAI and Anthropic are advancing their own enterprise-focused AI coding tools, leveraging their proprietary Codex and Claude Code models, respectively.

With numerous well-funded contenders, the AI coding space is rapidly emerging as one of the most competitive sectors in artificial intelligence.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/github-copilot-crosses-20-million-all-time-users/