OpenAI is reportedly developing an internal code repository platform after frequent outages on GitHub disrupted coding operations for its engineers.

The effort appears to be a direct response to GitHub's ongoing infrastructure migration to Microsoft Azure, which has introduced configuration problems and intermittent downtime.

Multiple outages over the past several months have left teams unable to commit code for hours at a time, raising concerns about reliability for AI-driven development workflows.

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Rising outages and reliability concerns

A mid-year report from GitProtect indicated a 58% year-over-year increase in incidents during 2025, with 17 classified as major, resulting in over 100 hours of disruption.

The current migration has placed GitHub in a split-traffic state, with portions of its services still operating from its legacy Virginia data center, while other services have moved to Azure.

An early February 2026 four-hour outage ...