Microsoft has created a new engineering organization aimed at accelerating the development of AI infrastructure and software within the company.
According to According to Bloomberg, Jay Parikh, former vice president and global head of engineering at Meta, will lead the new division. He will report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and oversee groups including the company’s AI platform and developer teams.
Parikh has worked on technical infrastructure and data center projects at Meta. Before joining Microsoft in October, he was named CEO of cloud security startup Lacework.
The new organization, called CoreAI — Platform and Tools, is actually a combination of the existing Microsoft Dev Div and AI Platform teams, The Verge. reportsas well as certain employees of the CTO Division Office. CoreAI is effectively reorganizing Microsoft’s developer teams to ensure AI remains a top priority.
In an internal memo published on the Microsoft website blogNadella said Microsoft will focus for the coming year on “forward-thinking” apps that will “reshape every app category.”
