After nearly four years as CEO, I’m leaving GitHub to become a startup founder again. With more than 1B repos and forks, 150M+ developers, and Copilot continuing to lead the most thriving market in AI with 20M users and counting, GitHub has never been stronger than it is today.

RT @ClementDelangue: Cool to connect with @ashtom today! Made me realize @huggingface is now in the top 10 orgs of all time on @github! htt….

we’ve only scratched the surface between what current models and the right app layer can achieve 👀.

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I am more convinced than ever that the world will soon see one billion developers enabled by billions of AI agents, each imprinting human ingenuity into a new gold rush of software. My latest with Decoder.

It’s been quite the week over at GitHub. GPT-5 is here. VS Code v1.103. Claude Opus 4.1. And now, we’re proud to share that GitHub has been named a Leader in the @IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI Coding and Software Engineering Technologies 2025 Vendor Assessment. Take a look👀

RT @mariorod1: The dev world is buzzing. 🐝 GPT-5 is here and available for real-world coding tasks. What’s more? A brand new VS Code releas….

RT @satyanadella: Today, GPT-5 launches across our platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundr….

And to top it all off, we’ve got a new VS Code release, too:

🖐️ GPT-5 + new VS Code drop 🤓 Another day, another set of launches for GitHub Copilot: Welcome to a new era of intelligence. In our evals, we found that OpenAI’s GPT-5 excels and improves on o3's advanced reasoning capabilities, enabling developers to tackle more complex.

See you at 1:40p PT / 4:40p ET 👀.

Check out the full changelog here:

Claude Opus 4 —> 4.1. The latest and greatest model from @AnthropicAI is now available in the GitHub Copilot model picker. ⚡

The evidence is clear: Either you embrace AI, or get out of this career. Our latest field study with 22 developers who are integrating AI deeply into their workflows reveals a striking trend: those who persist beyond early skepticism emerge with dramatically higher ambition,.

RT @TechCrunch: GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users | TechCrunch

GitHub Copilot has crossed 20 million users – up more than 5 million from last quarter. We’re also seeing explosive AI growth on GitHub, with AI projects more than doubling over the past year. And it’s all because of grit. It’s no secret the market Copilot introduced has heated

RT @satyanadella: Today we’re releasing GitHub Spark — a new tool in Copilot that turns your ideas into full-stack apps, entirely in natura….

In the last five decades of software development, producing software required manually converting human language into programming language, compiling it, debugging it, testing it – and then going back to more coding. Today, we take a step toward the ideal magic of creation: the.

And when it’s time to deploy, Spark lets you carry the torch, handling servers, domains, and authentication. Plus, control access with built-in, secure GitHub auth. 🔒

It all flows right back to the GitHub platform, where all your code already lives. Open a repo with one click, assign issues to the coding agent in GitHub – even open your Spark in VS Code with Codespaces to start editing the code yourself.