{"id":224711,"date":"2026-03-17T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/microsoft-combining-commercial-and-consumer-ai-efforts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:45:13","slug":"microsoft-combining-commercial-and-consumer-ai-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/microsoft-combining-commercial-and-consumer-ai-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Combining Commercial and Consumer AI Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/microsoft-combining-commercial-and-consumer-ai-efforts\/\">Microsoft Combining Commercial and Consumer AI Efforts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/microsoft-combining-commercial-and-consumer-ai-efforts\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/microsoft-combining-commercial-and-consumer-ai-efforts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 15:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is reconfiguring the various teams working on its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) offering.<\/p>\n<p>In a message on the company blog Tuesday (March 17), CEO Satya Nadella said Microsoft would merge the commercial and consumer parts of its Copilot system into one effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will span four connected pillars: Copilot experience, Copilot platform, Microsoft 365 apps, and AI models,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis is how we move from a collection of great products to a truly integrated system, one that is simpler and more powerful for customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Andreou, a former Snap executive who leads product and growth for Microsoft AI, will become executive vice president of Copilot, overseeing its design, product, growth and engineering<\/p>\n<p>Nadella said the new system will let Microsoft provide more \u201ccoherent and competitive\u201d experiences that can evolve in tandem with AI models. He added that the company\u2019s AI models will be increasingly important to its success in the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d love to be your preferred source for news.<\/p>\n<p>Please add us to your preferred sources list so our news, data and interviews show up in your feed. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>The changes were first reported by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, which noted that the shift is happening as Microsoft is working to boost new users for commercial Microsoft 365 Copilot while increasing adoption of the consumer version, accessed through the company\u2019s app and its Edge web browser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement: Scroll to Continue<\/p>\n<p>The company has faced obstacles on both fronts, the report added. Microsoft said last month that it had sold 15 million Microsoft 365 Copilot \u201cseats,\u201d compared to Microsoft 365\u2019s base of 450 million-plus paid seats. And while Microsoft has more than 150 million monthly active Copilot users on its first-party platforms, Google\u2019s Gemini has upwards of 650 million monthly users, while OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT has around 900 million weekly active users.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier WSJ report on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/microsoft-combining-commercial-and-consumer-ai-efforts\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Combining Commercial and Consumer AI Efforts https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/microsoft-combining-commercial-and-consumer-ai-efforts\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-17 15:26:00 Source Domain: www.pymnts.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Microsoft-Copilot-4.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224713,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224711\/revisions\/224713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}