Microsoft is mixing up its Copilot AI leadership, so Suleyman can 'build enterprise tuned lineages'

Date:
Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000

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Microsoft AI CEO will focus on developing superintelligence models as Copilot teams come into alignment.

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now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Copilot's consumer and enterprise teams are going to fall under single leadership Microsoft's AI products will feel more unified and cohesive AI CEO steps over to focus on enterprise model development Microsoft has set out plans to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot teams in order 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 worried about clear fragmentation. Now, though, Jacob Andreou will lead the entire unified
Copilot experience, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella across design, product and engineering. Article continues below You may like 'The era of Copilot execution is here': Microsoft's Copilot Cowork is here with Anthropic AI to conquer all your biggest work tasks Microsoft AI CEO admits Gemini 'can do things that Copilot cant do' Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier focused on AI and productivity Microsoft merges its Copilot teams' leadership 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 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 refreshed goal to develop enterprise-focused and cost-efficient 'superintelilgence' models over the course of the next five years.

"These models will enable us to build enterprise tuned lineages that help improve all our products across the company," he wrote. But for now,
Microsoft remains intent on using OpenAI's GPT models a continued
partnership with the ChatGPT-maker licenses their use until at least 2032.
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"We are doubling down on our superintelligence mission with the talent and compute to build models that have real product impact," Nadella added.

For now, though, Copilot adoption remains 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). Follow TechRadar on Google
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