Microsoft has established a new engineering division to accelerate AI infrastructure and software development within the corporation.
Bloomberg reports that the new division would be headed by Jay Parikh, who was previously Meta’s VP and worldwide head of engineering. He’ll be in charge of many projects and departments, including Microsoft’s artificial intelligence platform and developer teams, and will report to CEO Satya Nadella.
At Meta, Parikh was involved in data centre and technical infrastructure initiatives. His most recent appointment was as CEO of cloud security firm Lacework, which he left in October to join Microsoft.
According to The Verge, as well as some staff from the Office of the CTO division, the new organizational unit known as CoreAI—Platform and Tools is essentially a merger of Microsoft’s current Dev Div and AI platform teams. To keep AI at the forefront, CoreAI successfully reorganizes Microsoft’s development teams.
Nadella stated in an internal memo that was posted on the Microsoft blog that the company’s goal for the next year is to develop “model-forward” apps that “reshape all application categories.”
