- Copilot’s consumer and enterprise teams will fall under single leadership
- Microsoft’s AI products will feel more unified and coherent
- AI CEO steps down to focus on business model development
Microsoft has laid out plans to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot teams to push for a more unified AI experience.
The move comes in response to criticism that business and individual Copilot products had different features, with customers concerned about apparent 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 is merging its Copilot teams’ leadership
TextThe new leadership team will consist of Ryan Roslansky, Perry Clarke and Charles Lamanna working alongside Andreou, while Mustafa Suleyman will move away from Copilot functions to focus on building Microsoft’s own AI models.
In a letter to colleagues, Nadella explained that the team will work across four key areas: “Copilot experience, Copilot platform, Microsoft 365 apps and AI models.”
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman shared a separate memo to workers (available via the same link) explaining his renewed goal to develop business-focused and cost-effective ‘superintelligence’ models over the next five years.
“These models will enable us to build enterprise-tuned lines that help improve all of our products across the enterprise,” he wrote. But for now, Microsoft remains committed to using OpenAI’s GPT models – a continued partnership with the ChatGPT maker licenses their use until at least 2032.
“We are doubling down on our superintelligence mission with the talent and computation to build models that have real product impact,” Nadella added.
So far, however, Copilot adoption is still relatively low. It has fewer daily users (6 million) than Claude (9 million), both of which are miles behind Gemini (82 million) and ChatGPT (440 million).
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