- Microsoft formed a new engineering group led by Jay Parikh to build AI tools.
- Microsoft anticipates AI agents will fundamentally change application development.
- The new CoreAI Platform and Tools group will combine various AI teams and build out GitHub Copilot.
Microsoft has created a new engineering organization responsible for building its artificial intelligence platform and tools, according to an email CEO Satya Nadella sent to employees Monday morning.
The new group will be led by Jay Parikh, Facebook’s former head of engineering who Nadella added to Microsoft’s senior leadership team in October.
Microsoft is forming the new group as it anticipates AI, and particularly AI agents, will present a fundamental shift in how applications are built and used.
“2025 will be about model-forward applications that reshape all application categories,” Nadella wrote in the email, which was also posted to Microsoft’s blog. “More so than any previous platform shift, every layer of the application stack will be impacted. It’s akin to GUI, internet servers, and cloud-native databases all being introduced into the app stack simultaneously. Thirty years of change is being compressed into three years!”
The new group is called CoreAI Platform and Tools. It will include Microsoft’s developer division and AI platform team, and will be responsible for building out GitHub Copilot. AI-related teams from CTO Kevin Scott’s office, such as AI Supercomputer, AI Agentic Runtimes, and Engineering Thrive, will also be part of the new group.
Parikh worked at Facebook for more than a decade. He helped the company build out and maintain its massive technical infrastructure, a network of expensive data centers stocked with thousands of computers and spanning multiple continents.
As one of Mark Zuckerberg’s top lieutenants, Parikh also spearheaded various ambitious initiatives such as internet connectivity and an internet drone project that was eventually abandoned.
At Microsoft, Parikh’s new reports include AI Platform Corporate Vice President Eric Boyd; Deputy CTO, AI Infrastructure Jason Taylor; Developer Division President Julia Liuson; and Developer Infrastructure Corporate Vice President Tim Bozarth.
Parikh will also work closely with Cloud + AI chief Scott Guthrie, Experiences and Devices leader Rajesh Jha, Security boss Charlie Bell, consumer AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, and Scott, the CTO, according to the email.
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