Microsoft’s decision to regroup its consumer and commercial Copilot teams under a single product leader is more than an org chart tweak — it’s a strategic signal that the company wants to fix a long-standing product fragmentation problem while accelerating a parallel bet: building increasingly...
Microsoft’s senior AI leadership has openly signaled a strategic shift: the company is preparing to build its own frontier-grade foundation models and the gigawatt-scale compute to train them, reducing operational dependence on OpenAI even as commercial ties remain in place.
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Microsoft’s AI strategy has quietly pivoted from being almost wholly dependent on OpenAI to building a self-sufficient stack — and the company’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, has now openly framed that pivot as a long-term plan to develop Microsoft’s own frontier-grade foundation models and reduce...