OpenAI Building Its Own GitHub Rival After Platform Outages

OpenAI is developing a new code-hosting platform to rival Microsoft's GitHub after engineers encountered a rise in service disruptions that rendered GitHub unavailable in recent months. The project is in its early stages and likely will not be completed for months. Employees working on it have considered making the code repository available for purchase to OpenAI's customer base. The move could pit OpenAI directly against Microsoft, which owns GitHub and holds a major stake in the AI company. GitHub reported a 58% year-over-year increase in incidents during the first half of 2025, rising from 69 cases to 109 with 17 classified as "major," totaling over 100 hours of disruption. Microsoft currently holds roughly 27% of OpenAI and acquired GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion.