OpenAI is building a GitHub competitor, potentially challenging Microsoft

OpenAI is developing an internal alternative to GitHub after repeated outages disrupted its own developers, according to The Information. The project is still early-stage and likely months from completion. The company is debating whether to offer it externally, which would pit OpenAI directly against Microsoft, one of its biggest investors. GitHub has blamed some outages on migration to Microsoft's Azure cloud. Google and Meta both run internal code platforms but don't sell them. The move underscores OpenAI's ambition to control more of the developer toolchain as Codex adoption accelerates.

View full digest for March 5, 2026