Kamal Ghorui
Microsoft has reorganized its Copilot leadership structure, appointing a new executive to lead the unified product while freeing up Mustafa Suleyman to focus exclusively on building frontier AI models. Jacob Andreou, a former Snap executive, will become EVP of Copilot, overseeing both consumer and commercial experiences and reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella. Ryan Roslansky, Perry Clarke, and Charles Lamanna will lead Microsoft 365 apps and the Copilot platform alongside him.The overhaul is Microsoft’s attempt to solve two problems at once: turning its sprawling Copilot lineup into a coherent platform, while reducing its reliance on OpenAI by building its own frontier models.Suleyman wants to build enterprise-grade AI models that cut costs and reduce Microsoft’s OpenAI dependenceSuleyman, for his part, sounds energised about the shift. “I’m genuinely thrilled about this change precisely because most of the future value is going to accrue to the model layer,” he said, adding that his goal over the next three to five years is building COGS-optimised, enterprise-specific model lineages for Microsoft. “The model is the product.”Suleyman had formed a superintelligence team at Microsoft back in November, with a stated aim of training frontier models to make the company “self-sufficient in AI.” Tuesday’s announcement simply formalises what has long been his priority.The shake-up follows the retirement of Rajesh Jha, EVP of Microsoft’s experiences and devices group, who had been overseeing Microsoft 365 Copilot, Windows, and Office after more than 35 years at the company.
Read Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s message to employees
I want to share two org changes we’re making to our Copilot org and superintelligence effort.It’s clear a new era of productivity is emerging as AI experiences rapidly evolve from answering questions and suggesting code, to executing multi-step tasks with clear user control points. You see this in our announcements over the last couple of weeks, like Copilot Tasks and Copilot Cowork, agentic capabilities in Office, and Agent 365. As these experiences connect more naturally across agents, apps, and workflows, we have an opportunity to help customers spend more time on higher-value work and reduce manual coordination, while providing people with more agency and empowerment and organizations with the governance and security controls they need.To that end, we are bringing the Copilot system across commercial and consumer together as one unified effort. This will span four connected pillars: Copilot experience, Copilot platform, Microsoft 365 apps, and AI models. This is how we move from a collection of great products to a truly integrated system, one that is simpler and more powerful for customers.Jacob Andreou will lead the Copilot experience across consumer and commercial, driving design, product, growth, and engineering, as EVP, Copilot, reporting to me. As CVP of Product and Growth at Microsoft AI, Jacob has accelerated our user-focused AI-first product making and growth framework. Prior to that, he was SVP at Snap, where he helped scale the company from its early days.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. 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. Mustafa Suleyman and I have been working towards this plan for some time, and he will continue to lead this high ambition work, reporting to me. Mustafa is uniquely qualified to drive this forward, with his deep focus and commitment to advancing the frontiers of model science, while also ensuring that human control, agency, and economic opportunity remain at the center of these advancements.Ryan Roslansky, Perry Clarke, and Charles Lamanna will lead M365 apps and the Copilot platform. Together, Jacob, Ryan, Charles, Perry, and Mustafa make up the Copilot LT and over the next few weeks they’ll work to align the teams.Our org boundaries will simply reflect system architecture and product shape such that we can deliver more coherent and competitive experiences that continue to evolve with model capabilities. And I am looking forward to how together we apply all of this to empower people, organizations, and the world.
