GoKawiilMicrosoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman speaks during an event highlighting Microsoft Copilot, the company's AI tool, on April 4, 2025 in Redmond, Washington. The company also celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Microsoft said Tuesday that it's bringing together the engineering groups for its commercial and consumer Copilot assistants, which have yet to gain broad adoption.
Jacob Andreou, a former Snap executive who works in Microsoft's artificial intelligence unit, will become an executive vice president in charge of the consumer and commercial Copilot experience, CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a memo to employees.
Andreou will report to Nadella. Executives Ryan Roslansky, Perry Clarke, and Charles Lamanna, who will also report to Nadella, will lead Microsoft 365 applications and the Copilot platform, Nadella wrote.
The Copilot moves will free up executive Mustafa Suleyman, a former co-founder of AI lab DeepMind that Google bought in 2014, to focus more on building new models.
"The next phase of this plan is to restructure our organization to enable me to focus all my energy on our Superintelligence efforts and be able to deliver world class models for Microsoft over the next 5 years," Suleyman wrote in a memo. "These models will enable us to build enterprise tuned lineages that help improve all our products across the company."
Since arriving at Microsoft through the Inflection deal in 2024, Suleyman has spent time working on Copilot for consumers, among other initiatives.
Microsoft's Copilot app had 6 million daily active users in December, while ChatGPT had 392 million and Gemini had 62 million, according to data from app analytics company Sensor Tower.
Microsoft incorporates generative AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, but OpenAI's own ChatGPT assistant is more widely used than Microsoft's Copilot for consumers.
About 3% of commercial users with Office productivity software subscriptions have access to the Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on. There is also Google's Gemini assistant to contend with across the board.