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OpenAI building GitHub alternative after frequent platform outages and disruptions — a public OpenAI code repository would directly compete with one of its biggest investors

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OpenAI is in the process of creating its own code repository platform as an alternative to GitHub due to frequent outages on GitHub that hindered OpenAI engineers' work. The new platform is still in early development and may not be ready for months. OpenAI is considering offering access to this platform to customers, potentially competing directly with Microsoft, which owns GitHub and has a significant stake in OpenAI. GitHub has faced reliability issues following a migration to Microsoft Azure, with several outages attributed to Azure or configuration changes. If OpenAI commercializes its platform, it would challenge Microsoft in a new way, although losing OpenAI as a customer would have limited impact on GitHub given its large user base.

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