OpenAI is building its own code-hosting platform that could compete directly with GitHub. While The Information reported that the project is still in its early stages, sources familiar with the matter say it may take months before it is ready. Engineers at OpenAI began exploring the idea after repeated service disruptions on GitHub in recent months disrupted their work.
Those outages forced internal teams to reassess how much they rely on external platforms. Reports so far have it that OpenAI has discussed offering the repository as a paid service to its existing customers, a move likely to place it in direct competition with GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft. Neither OpenAI nor Microsoft has publicly confirmed the plan.
Analysts believe that OpenAI continuation with the project would test its relationship with Microsoft. The software giant is one of OpenAI’s biggest backers and also controls GitHub, which serves more than 100 million developers worldwide. A competing product from OpenAI would be a rare overlap in their commercial interests. In February 2026, OpenAI closed a $110 billion funding round that valued the company at $840 billion.
Investors in that raise included Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank. The deal stands among the largest private capital raises to date and places OpenAI ahead of competitors such as Anthropic and Inflection in valuation terms. For now, the proposed platform is still under development, with OpenAI still weighing whether to build more of its own infrastructure rather than depend on tools owned by partners
