- Copilot’s business and consumer teams will be under single leadership
- Microsoft’s AI products will feel more unified and cohesive
- AI CEO steps down to focus on business model development
Microsoft has set out plans to combine its commercial and consumer Copilot teams to drive a more unified AI experience.
The move comes in response to criticism that individual and enterprise Copilot products had different features, and customers were concerned about clear fragmentation.
Now, however, Jacob Andreou will lead the entire unified Copilot experience, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella across design, product and engineering.
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Microsoft merges the leadership of its Copilot teams
TextThe new leadership group will consist of Ryan Roslansky, Perry Clarke and Charles Lamanna, who will work with Andreou, while Mustafa Suleyman will step away from Copilot duties to focus on building Microsoft’s own AI models.
In a letter to colleagues, Nadella explained that the team will work on four key areas: “Copilot experience, Copilot platform, Microsoft 365 applications and AI models.”
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman shared a separate memo to workers (available through the same link), explaining his renewed goal of developing profitable, enterprise-focused ‘superintelligence’ models over the course of the next five years.
“These models will allow us to build optimized business lineages that help improve all of our products across the company,” he wrote. But for now, Microsoft remains determined to use OpenAI’s GPT models: an ongoing partnership with ChatGPT’s maker licenses their use until at least 2032.
“We are doubling down on our superintelligence mission with the talent and computing to build models that have real impact on the product,” Nadella added.
For now, however, Copilot adoption remains relatively low. It has fewer daily users (6 million) than Claude (9 million), which are far behind Gemini (82 million) and ChatGPT (440 million).
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