Microsoft is forming 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.

According to According to Bloomberg, Jay Parikh, former vice president 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 has worked on technical infrastructure and data center projects at Meta. Before joining Microsoft in October, he was named CEO of cloud security startup Lacework.

The new organization, called CoreAI – Platform and Tools, is actually a combination of Microsoft’s existing Dev Div and AI platform teams, The Verge Reportsalong with some staff in the CTO department office. CoreAI is effectively reorganizing Microsoft’s developer teams to ensure AI remains a top priority.

In an internal memo published on Microsoft’s website BlogMicrosoft’s focus next year will be on “forward-format” applications that “reshape all application categories,” Nadella said.