- Copilot’s consumer and enterprise teams will be placed under single management
- Microsoft’s AI products will appear more unified and cohesive
- AI CEO focuses on business model development
Microsoft plans to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot teams to promote a more unified AI experience.
The move follows criticism that professional and individual Copilot products had different functionality, with customers concerned about obvious fragmentation.
Now, Jacob Andreou will lead the entire unified Copilot experience, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella for design, product and engineering.
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Microsoft merges the management of its Copilot teams
TextThe new leadership group will consist of Ryan Roslansky, Perry Clarke and Charles Lamanna, working with Andreou, while Mustafa Suleyman will move away from Copilot features to focus on building Microsoft’s own AI models.
In a letter to colleagues, Nadella explained that the team would work in four key areas: “the Copilot experience, the Copilot platform, Microsoft 365 apps, and AI models.”
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, shared a separate memo to workers (available via the same link), explaining his renewed focus on developing business-focused, cost-effective “superintelligence” models over the next five years.
“These models will allow us to create enterprise-ready bloodlines that will help improve all of our products across the enterprise,” he wrote. But for now, Microsoft remains committed to using OpenAI’s GPT models – an ongoing partnership with the creator of ChatGPT allows for their use until at least 2032.
“We are doubling down on our superintelligence mission with the talent and calculation to create models that have real impact on products,” Nadella added.
For now, however, adoption of Copilot remains relatively low. It has fewer daily users (6 million) than Claude (9 million), both far behind Gemini (82 million) and ChatGPT (440 million).
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