Satya Nadella announces new platform for AI to be headed by Jay Parikh

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On Jan. 13, 2025 morning, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, informed his employees in the vast company that the  company is launching a new AI app stack to be in front of  “the next innings” in the AI platform. And it is to be led by another Indian-origin technology leader Jay Parikh, who Nadella hired in 2024.

“As we begin the new year, it’s clear that we’re entering the next innings of this AI platform shift. 2025 will be about model-forward applications that reshape all application categories,” Nadella said in his communication. The company, he said has been working on this for more than two years.

“We will build agentic applications with memory, entitlements, and action space that will inherit powerful model capabilities. And we will adapt these capabilities for enhanced performance and safety across roles, business processes, and industry domains,” he said.

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This new division will bring together Dev Div, AI Platform, and some key teams from the Office of the CTO (AI Supercomputer, AI Agentic Runtimes, and Engineering Thrive), with the mission to build the end-to-end Copilot & AI stack for both our first-party and third-party customers to build and run AI apps and agents, Nadella detailed. This group will also build out GitHub Copilot, thus having a tight feedback loop between the leading AI-first product and the AI platform to motivate the stack and its roadmap, Nadella added.

Jay Parikh will lead this group as EVP of CoreAI – Platform and Tools, with Eric Boyd, Jason Taylor, Julia Liuson, Tim Bozarth, and their respective teams reporting to Parikh, a former Meta executive. Parikh will work closely with several others Nadella named, “to optimize our entire tech stack for both performance and efficiency.” Additionally, Parikh and his team will lead the company’s progress and work around developer productivity and Engineering Thrive across the company.

“Our success in this next phase will be determined by having the best AI platform, tools, and infrastructure. We have a lot of work to do and a tremendous opportunity ahead, and together, I’m looking forward to building what comes next,” Nadella concluded.

In an earlier blog post October 31, 2024, when Nadella hired Parikh, he said he had admired his new hire over the years as a technology leader.

Parikh was the global head of engineering at Facebook (now Meta) and most recently was CEO of Lacework. He has an impressive track record, with a unique combination of experiences building and scaling technical teams that serve both commercial customers and consumers, Nadella noted in the earlier blog. His deep connections across the start-up and VC ecosystems, coupled with his leadership roles at Akamai and Ning, will bring valuable perspective to Microsoft, Nadella added.

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