After several years in which the work developed with his Copilot smart assistant It has been distributed by several teams, Microsoft has decided to unify all its development and related areas into a single division. This division will deal with Copilot at both the consumer and enterprise levels, and will have its own management team. In addition, the company’s AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, will now be part of Microsoft’s Superintelligence team, with work more focused on the development of frontier AI models.
These changes also reflect the strategy that Satya Nadella wants to follow from now on, which involves betting on AI more aggressively than until now, in a framework in which large technology companies are immersed in an increasingly frenetic race for the dominance of Artificial Intelligence.
Jacob Andreouwho until now was Vice President of Product and Growth at Microsoft AI, From now on he will be Executive Vice President of Copilotand will be in charge of leading all teams related to the assistant.
This restructuring and changes come just days after company executives Yan Roslansky, Perry Clarke and Charles Lamanna were promoted to take over from Rajesh Jha, who announced his retirement earlier this month. These executives will be responsible for leading the Microsoft 365 apps and the Copilot platform, and will be part of the Copilot leadership team along with Andreou and Suleyman.
The latter has been in charge of communicating the news to the company’s employees, in addition to confirming that from now on it will focus mainly on tasks related to Superintelligence, to develop models for Microsoft over the next five years.
Last November, Suleyman launched a superintelligence team focused on training frontier models of any dimension with the company’s data and computing power, to help Microsoft achieve self-sufficiency in AI.
A step that shows that they are increasingly distant from Open AI, since according to an agreement that both companies had in force until recently, Microsoft could not develop its own Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) until 2030. After signing a new agreement last October, You can now move forward in this direction, alone or with third parties.
