Jacob Andreou, a former Snap<\/a> executive who works in Microsoft’s artificial intelligence<\/a> unit, will become an executive vice president in charge of the consumer and commercial Copilot experience, CEO Satya Nadella<\/a> wrote in a memo to employees. <\/p>\n Andreou will report to Nadella. Executives Ryan Roslansky, Perry Clarke and Charles Lamanna, who will also report to Nadella<\/a>, will lead Microsoft 365 applications and the Copilot platform, Nadella wrote.<\/p>\n The Copilot moves will free up executive Mustafa Suleyman, a former co-founder of AI lab DeepMind that Google<\/a> bought in 2014, to focus more on building new models. <\/p>\n “The next phase of this plan is to restructure our organization to enable me to focus all my energy on our Superintelligence efforts and be able to deliver world class models for Microsoft over the next 5 years,” Suleyman wrote in a memo. “These models will enable us to build enterprise tuned lineages that help improve all our products across the company.” <\/p>\n Since arriving at Microsoft through the Inflection deal<\/a> in 2024, Suleyman has spent time working on Copilot for consumers, among other initiatives.<\/p>\n Microsoft’s Copilot app had 6 million daily active users in February, while OpenAI’s ChatGPT had 440 million and Google’s Gemini had 82 million, according to data from app analytics company Sensor Tower.<\/p>\n Sensor Tower said that so far in March, Anthropic’s Claude, which has gotten extensive media attention because of Anthropic’s standoff with the U.S. Department of Defense<\/a>, has reached 9 million daily users, while Copilot still stands at 6 million.<\/p>\n Microsoft incorporates generative AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI. About 3% of commercial users with Office productivity software subscriptions have access to the Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on. Google is pushing Gemini to both consumers and corporations.<\/p>\n In November, Microsoft announced the formation of a superintelligence group<\/a> under Suleyman, who said Tuesday that frontier model development has always been his main focus and passion.<\/p>\n He said he will “stay directly involved in much of the day-to-day operation” of the broad Microsoft AI group that includes products such as the Bing search engine. <\/p>\n Google controlled 90% of search engine market share in February, while Bing had about 5%, according to estimates from web analytics company StatCounter.<\/p>\n “We are doubling down on\u00a0our superintelligence\u00a0mission\u00a0with the\u00a0talent and\u00a0compute\u00a0to build models that\u00a0have\u00a0real product impact, in terms of evals, COGS reduction, as well as advancing the frontier when it comes to\u00a0meeting\u00a0enterprise\u00a0needs\u00a0and\u00a0achieving\u00a0the next set of research breakthroughs,” Nadella wrote.<\/p>\n The shake-up comes as pressure mounts on software companies to show a return on AI investments, as investors worry that the models could disrupt software incumbents.<\/p>\n The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector Exchange-Traded Fund<\/a> is down about 19% so far this year, with Microsoft falling 17% in that period.<\/p>\n Microsoft is constructing models for generating source code, images and audio, and for reasoning, which produces answers that people can find more thoughtful but requires more time, Suleyman said. <\/p>\n At the same time, Microsoft will keep drawing on OpenAI intellectual property. In October, Microsoft said<\/a> it has IP rights for OpenAI models and products through 2032.<\/p>\n “I’m genuinely thrilled about this change precisely because most of the future value is going to accrue to the model layer, and my job is to create highly COGS-optimized, highly efficient enterprise specific model lineages for Microsoft over the next three to five years,” Suleyman said in an interview, using the acronym for cost of goods sold. “That is singularly the objective, precisely because the model is the product, right? That is the future direction of all the IP.”<\/p>\n WATCH:<\/strong> Microsoft shifts from OpenAI exclusivity and expands its AI basket<\/a><\/p>\n
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