Microsoft revamps Copilot structure, elevating former Snap exec as Suleyman shifts to AI models

Microsoft is reorganizing its Copilot organization, unifying its consumer and commercial AI efforts under former Snap executive Jacob Andreou while narrowing the role of Microsoft AI leader Mustafa Suleyman to focus on the superintelligence and frontier models.

The news, announced Tuesday by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, is a new attempt by the company to gain traction as AI shifts from chatbots that converse with users to agents that take action on their behalf. It’s the latest shakeup in the company’s executive ranks. 

Microsoft 365 Copilot had 15 million paying users at last count, about 3% of the overall user base for the enterprise platform. Estimates from Statcounter show Copilot with a low‑single‑digit share of global AI chatbot usage, well behind its partner OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

“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,” Nadella said in an email to employees about the changes, published by the company on its website.

Andreou joined Microsoft last year from Snap, where he spent eight years and rose to senior vice president. As corporate vice president of product and growth at Microsoft AI, he has been leading the consumer Copilot effort. As executive vice president of the combined Copilot group, he will report directly to Nadella, leading overall design, product, growth, and engineering.

Suleyman, a co-founder of DeepMind, joined Microsoft as CEO of AI when the company brought over most of the team from his AI startup Inflection AI in 2024.  He will continue reporting to Nadella but shift his focus to building frontier AI models. 

Microsoft formed a Superintelligence team under Suleyman in November, and Tuesday’s restructuring effectively makes that his primary mandate.

In his email to staff, Suleyman said the restructuring will allow him to commit fully to the company’s superintelligence efforts and deliver models over the next five years that improve products and reduce the cost of running AI workloads at scale.

Microsoft 365 apps and the Copilot platform will be led by Ryan Roslansky, CEO of LinkedIn; Perry Clarke, who leads Microsoft 365 core infrastructure; and Charles Lamanna, who oversees business and industry Copilot. Together with Andreou and Suleyman, they will form a new Copilot Leadership Team.  

Roslansky, Clarke and Lamanna began reporting directly to Nadella earlier this month as part of the succession plan for Rajesh Jha, the longtime executive vice president who is retiring after more than 35 years at the company.

Source link