Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday announced changes within the company’s AI organization that will bring its Copilot efforts more directly under his control within a new group.
In a memo to staff, Nadella said Jacob Andreou will be named executive vice president of Copilot, reporting directly to Nadella.
Under Andreou, this group will be focused on the Copilot experience across consumer and commercial, driving design, product, growth, and engineering, Nadella said in his note.
Andreou had previously reported to Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. Suleyman said Tuesday in a memo that these changes will allow him to “focus all my energy on our Superintelligence efforts and be able to deliver world class models for Microsoft over the next 5 years.”
“Progress at the AI model layer is more critical than ever to our success as a company over the next decade and is foundational to everything we build above it,” Nadella said.
“We are doubling down on our superintelligence mission with the talent and compute to build models that have real product impact, in terms of evals, COGS reduction, as well as advancing the frontier when it comes to meeting enterprise needs and achieving the next set of research breakthroughs.”
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced a new Copilot tier that will include access to Anthropic’s Claude alongside the latest generation of OpenAI models.
Microsoft stock is down about 17% year to date.