Microsoft has created a new engineering organization that aims to accelerate the company’s AI infrastructure and software development. According to Bloomberg, Jay Parikh, previously VP and global head of engineering at Meta, will lead the new division. He will report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and oversee the group, including the company’s AI platform and development team. Parikh works on technical infrastructure and data center projects at Meta. Before joining Microsoft in October, he was appointed CEO of cloud security startup Lacework. The new org, called CoreAI – Platforms and Tools, is actually a combination of Microsoft’s existing Dev Div and AI platform teams, reports The Verge, along with several employees in the CTO division’s Office. CoreAI effectively rejiggers Microsoft’s development team to ensure AI remains a top priority. In an internal memo published on Microsoft’s blog, Nadella said that Microsoft’s focus in the coming year will be on “model-forward” applications that are “reshaping entire application categories.”
