Microsoft Corp. is forming a new engineering group that will be led by Jay Parikh, a former Meta Platforms Inc. executive who joined the company last year.
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella announced the move today in a note to employees.
The new unit is known as the CoreAI – Platform and Tools group. It will develop technology for Microsoft’s Copilot family of artificial intelligence products. In today’s memo, Nadella placed particular emphasis on GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant offered by the company’s GitHub unit.
The new group will also work on products that can help Microsoft customers build their own machine learning services, including AI agents. Those are neural networks customized to perform a narrow set of tasks with a high degree of autonomy. The goal is to “build the end-to-end Copilot & AI stack for both our first-party and third-party customers to build and run AI apps and agents,” Nadella detailed.
The group will include several existing Microsoft teams. The list includes the company’s AI Platform unit and Dev Div, which builds developer tools. The latter team is responsible for Visual Studio Code, one of the most popular code editors on the market, and the software development kits that ship with Microsoft products. SDKs are software bundles that include code examples, debugging tools and other resources meant to help developers more easily adopt a cloud service.
The CoreAI – Platform and Tools group will also include several teams from Microsoft’s Office of the CTO. Among them is Engineering Thrive, which is responsible for measuring and improving the efficiency of the company’s development efforts. Microsoft’s AI Supercomputer and AI Agentic Runtimes units will likewise become part of the new group.
“We will build agentic applications with memory, entitlements, and action space that will inherit powerful model capabilities,” Nadella wrote. “And we will adapt these capabilities for enhanced performance and safety across roles, business processes, and industry domains.”
The CoreAI – Platform and Tools group will be headed by Microsoft Executive Vice President Jay Parikh, who joined the company last year. He was earlier the CEO of Lacework Inc., a startup with a platform for finding vulnerabilities and malicious code in cloud environments. It was acquired by publicly traded cybersecurity provider Fortinet Inc. in June for $149 million.
Parikh was earlier the global head of engineering at Meta. During his time at the Facebook parent, the executive played a key role in building its data center network.
Nadella detailed that Parikh will work closely with several other Microsoft executives including Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the company’s consumer AI group. Suleyman joined Microsoft last year after it hired most of the employees at Inflection AI Inc., a well-funded OpenAI competitor he led as CEO. The executive earlier co-founded Google LLC’s DeepMind machine learning research group.
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