Microsoft unifies Copilot teams and frees Mustafa Suleyman to focus on superintelligence

Microsoft reorganized its Copilot teams, unifying commercial and consumer product lines under Jacob Andreou, formerly VP of product and growth at Microsoft AI. AI chief Mustafa Suleyman — recruited from Google DeepMind — is being freed from Copilot oversight to focus entirely on building Microsoft's own frontier models over the next five years. Microsoft attributed the restructuring in part to competitive pressure from Gemini and Claude Cowork. Copilot has reached 15 million M365 users with consumer daily app usage nearly tripling year-over-year.

Suleyman's reassignment is the key signal. Microsoft has spent two years positioning him as the face of its AI products — moving him back to pure research suggests Copilot is running on its own while Microsoft bets on in-house model development to reduce its 45% performance-obligation dependency on OpenAI. The MAI Superintelligence Team, formed in November, now has full executive attention. For practitioners, the near-term question is product quality continuity under new Copilot leadership; the longer-term question is whether Microsoft's in-house models ever ship at competitive scale.