Thought Leadership
For more than two years, BMW has been using the CodeRabbit AI platform to review vehicle software. The company is now expanding the tool’s capabilities.
More than 1,000 software developers at the BMW Group worldwide use CodeRabbit to automatically review code changes before they are approved. This was revealed in a joint announcement by BMW and CodeRabbit on August 12, 2026. According to the companies, their partnership has been in place for more than two years. At the same time, BMW’s investment arm, BMW i Ventures, is participating in CodeRabbit’s $143 million Series C funding round, which values the company at $1.5 billion.
What CodeRabbit Does
CodeRabbit provides an AI-powered platform that reviews code changes before they are approved and released. The software is designed to identify quality, security, and reliability issues regardless of whether the code was written by a human developer or generated by an AI model. According to the company, the platform considers the context of the existing software repository, related tickets, project history, company-specific standards, and isolated test results.
The underlying challenge is the growing amount of code generated by AI systems. According to CodeRabbit, development teams need scalable ways to assess and manage these changes. The final approval decision, however, is intended to remain with a human reviewer.
How BMW Uses the Platform
According to BMW, using the AI platform is significantly accelerating vehicle software development.
“By reducing the time and effort required for code reviews, our teams also gain more time to develop new and innovative software features for our customers,” Georg Baetz, Head of Electrical and Electronic Integration and Validation Driving Experience at the BMW Group, said in the announcement.
Expansion Across Europe and Asia
CodeRabbit is also expanding geographically alongside its latest funding round. The company recently opened an office in London’s Moorgate district and now has 50 full-time employees across the UK and EU, including six in Germany. Customers in the DACH region include BMW as well as Trivago. CodeRabbit plans to expand into additional European markets, as well as Japan and other parts of Asia.
According to the company, its revenue has grown more than fivefold over the past year. CodeRabbit now conducts more than two million code reviews every week and counts more than 17,000 customers and open-source projects among its users.
From Code Review to “Agentic Change Management”
With its new funding, CodeRabbit plans to expand beyond code review. Under the name Agentic Change Management, the company is developing a system designed to classify, prioritize, and monitor software changes made by both human developers and AI agents, including after the code has already been deployed. If potential problems are detected, coding agents will be able to fix them autonomously and trigger another review. The final decision, however, will remain with a human reviewer.
“Code changes today originate across the entire software organization, from developers and non-technical staff to coding agents, issue trackers, support systems, and production alerts,” said Harjot Gill, co-founder and CEO of CodeRabbit.
The company introduced AI-powered code reviews to give teams an independent layer of verification. Agentic Change Management is intended to extend that layer, Gill said. Such an independent verification layer could be particularly valuable for large, regulated software organizations. It can combine company-specific standards with the governance, security, compliance, and audit requirements needed to deliver software reliably at scale.
(Editorial Team)
