GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke will leave his position at the end of the year. He joined the developer platform from Microsoft in 2021.

(Reuters) -GitHub Chief Executive Thomas Dohmke said on Monday he will leave the Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform to launch a new startup, capping a tenure that included a major push into artificial intelligence through the company's Copilot products.

Part of Dohmke's legacy will be GitHub Copilot, which currently has 20 million users. The CEO discussed how GitHub Copilot has evolved "from a simple, but magical autocompletion tool to conversational coding with Copilot Chat & Voice."