GitHub
The future of building happens together
GitHub is an AI-powered developer platform where developers and teams collaborate to write, review, and ship code. It provides tools spanning the entire software development lifecycle, from version control and code review to CI/CD, security scanning, and AI-assisted coding via GitHub Copilot. Used by millions of individual developers and major enterprises worldwide, it also hosts the largest open source community.
GitHub provides Git-based repositories combined with collaboration features, CI/CD pipelines, security tooling, and AI assistance through GitHub Copilot to cover the full software development workflow.
Software developers, engineering teams, and open source contributors
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- GitHub, Inc.
- Launched
- 2008
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