Microsoft has created a new division focused on AI development, led by former Meta executive
Microsoft is creating a new division that will combine the company's Dev Div and AI platform teams, as well as some employees in the CTO office team.
Microsoft is creating a new division that will combine the company's Dev Div and AI platform teams, as well as some employees in the CTO office team.
The unit, called CoreAI — Platform and Tools, will focus on building AI tools for both the company and its customers. It will be led by former Meta engineering chief Jay Parikh, The Verge reports .
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described his vision for this new team in an internal memo, using a reference to cricket (his favorite sport): “We are entering the next innings of this AI platform shift in 2025 that will reshape every app category.” Nadella believes that AI will impact every part of the app stack, and that “thirty years of change are being condensed into three years!”
To prepare for all these changes, Nadella sees a need to create an “AI-centric application stack” within Microsoft that will influence how its own developers use and build AI applications and tools in the future.
“In this world, Azure is going to be the infrastructure for AI, and we’re building our AI platform and developer tools, which span Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, and VS Code, on top of that,” Nadella said. “In other words, our platform and AI tools will come together to create agents, and those agents will transform every category of SaaS application, and the creation of custom applications will be software-driven (i.e., software as a service).”
Parikh will lead the new group as Executive Vice President of CoreAI — Platform and Tools, after playing a key role in Meta’s engineering efforts for over a decade.
Microsoft announced Parikh’s hiring in October, the first major engineering reshuffle since he joined the software giant. Parikh will also report directly to Nadella and is a member of Microsoft’s senior leadership team. In his new role, he will report to a number of other Microsoft executives, including Eric Boyd, head of AI platform, Jason Taylor, deputy chief technical officer for AI infrastructure, Julia Lewison, head of Microsoft’s developer division, and Tim Bozarth, head of developer infrastructure.
Microsoft is essentially taking its entire developer division and making it focused on AI. While the memo mentions Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, and VS Code, Nadella doesn’t mention Visual Studio or .NET. Perhaps that’s because the mission of the new CoreAI team, Nadella says, is to “build an end-to-end Copilot & AI stack for our internal and external customers so they can build and run AI apps and agents.”
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