Microsoft is creating a new engineering division, led by the former global head of engineering at Facebook (now Meta), that will be responsible for building fundamental AI technologies and tools for the company and its customers.
Jay Parikh, who joined Microsoft in October, will lead the new division, dubbed CoreAI — Platform and Tools, as its executive vice president, according to a memo to employees Yesterday morning from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Nadella said the new division reflects the next stage of the industry’s AI platform shift. He that 2025 will be a year in which AI models change the fundamental nature of commonly used applications.
“More so than any previous platform shift, every layer of the application stack will be impacted,” the Microsoft CEO wrote. “It’s akin to GUI, internet servers, and cloud-native databases all being introduced into the app stack simultaneously. Thirty years of change is being compressed into three years!”
Parikh will work closely with the leaders of other Microsoft engineering divisions: Scott Guthrie, Microsoft Cloud + AI; Rajesh Jha, Experiences + Devices; Charlie Bell, Microsoft Security; and Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft Consumer AI; as well as Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, according to Nadella’s memo.
Nadella described the company’s focus on AI agents as part of the memo.
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