Microsoft is creating a new internal AI organization focused on development

Microsoft has created a new engineering organization aimed at accelerating AI infrastructure and software development within the company.

Second to Bloomberg, Jay Parikh, former VP and global head of engineering at Meta, will lead the new division. He will report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and oversee groups, including the company’s AI platform and developer teams.

Parikh worked 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 organization, called CoreAI – Platform and Tools, is actually a combination of Microsoft’s Dev Div and AI platform teams, The Verge. reportswith some employees in the Office of the CTO division. CoreAI effectively retools Microsoft’s developer teams to ensure AI remains a top priority.

In an internal memo published on Microsoft blogNadella said Microsoft’s focus for the coming year will be “model-forward” applications that will “reshape all application categories.”