Microsoft shakes up Copilot AI leadership team, freeing up Suleyman to build new models
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Microsoft is reorganizing its AI leadership, moving Jacob Andreou into a new executive role overseeing both consumer and commercial Copilot assistants, while freeing up Mustafa Suleyman to focus on building new AI models as part of Microsoft's superintelligence (advanced AI systems aiming toward human-level reasoning) efforts. This restructuring comes as Microsoft's Copilot adoption lags significantly behind competitors like ChatGPT and Gemini, and as investors pressure the company to show returns on its AI investments.
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Original source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/microsoft-copilot-ai-suleyman.html
First tracked: March 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%