Microsoft\u00a0is forming a new group focused on developing AI apps and providing tools for third-party customers, the company announced Monday.<\/p>\n
The new group will be led by Jay Parikh, the former CEO of cybersecurity startup Lacework and former global head of engineering at Meta. The group will be called Core AI \u2014 Platform and Tools, Microsoft CEO\u00a0Satya Nadella\u00a0said in a memo to employees that was also published as a\u00a0blog post. The mission, he said, is \u201cto build the end-to-end Copilot & AI stack for both our first-party and third-party customers to build and run AI apps and agents.\u201d<\/p>\n
The announcement comes 10 months after Microsoft\u00a0hired\u00a0DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to lead Copilot AI initiatives. In that role, Suleyman is an executive vice president, reporting directly to Nadella.<\/p>\n
In Monday\u2019s post, Nadella said Parikh will work closely with Suleyman as well as Scott Guthrie, who runs cloud, technology chief Kevin Scott and other top tech leaders at the company. Parikh\u00a0joined Microsoft\u00a0in October as an executive vice president, also reporting to the CEO.<\/p>\n
Artificial intelligence has become the primary theme in tech since OpenAI\u2019s launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, and Microsoft, as the principal investor in OpenAI, has been at the center of the boom. Microsoft counts on OpenAI\u2019s large language models for internal AI use when it comes to areas like content generation and code creation and also serves as the startup\u2019s main cloud partner.<\/p>\n
At the same time, Microsoft is developing products and tools that compete with some OpenAI services. Over the summer, Microsoft\u00a0added OpenAI\u00a0to its list of competitors in its SEC filings, and Nadella\u00a0used the phrase \u201ccooperation tension\u201d while discussing the relationship with investors Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley on\u00a0a podcast\u00a0released last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, we must remember that our internal organizational boundaries are meaningless to both our customers and to our competitors,\u201d Nadella wrote in Monday\u2019s memo.<\/p>\n
The new group will bring together people working on developer and AI platforms, as well as teams from the Office of the CTO, Nadella said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur success in this next phase will be determined by having the best AI platform, tools, and infrastructure,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Parikh joined Microsoft from Lacework, which had been a rapid growing and\u00a0high-profile\u00a0startup, soaring to a valuation of $8.3 billion in 2022, seven years after its founding. However, the company\u2019s fortunes turned when the market shifted away from risk, and Lacework was forced to dramatically cut staff to try and turn profitable. In August, security software vendor\u00a0Fortinet\u00a0closed\u00a0its acquisition of Lacework for\u00a0$149 million.<\/p>\n
\u2014 CNBC\u2019s Jordan Novet contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Microsoft\u00a0is forming a new group focused on developing AI apps and providing tools for third-party customers, the company announced Monday. The new group will be led by Jay Parikh, the former CEO of cybersecurity startup Lacework and former global head of engineering at Meta. The group will be called Core AI \u2014 Platform and Tools, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}