By Richard Speed
Publication Date: 2026-03-18 15:01:00
Microsoft has rearranged the deckchairs on the RMS Copilot, sending Mustafa Suleyman to seek out superintelligence, and putting Jacob Andreou in charge of Copilot across consumer and commercial.
Suleyman, a DeepMind veteran who was appointed CEO of Microsoft AI by Satya Nadella in 2024, spent his entire tenure talking up Copilot, unveiling creepy animated avatars, insisting all was well with the OpenAI deal as Microsoft quietly developed its own models, and exclaiming “Jeez there are so many cynics!” at a public skeptical of AI.
Copilot has yet to set the market alight despite Microsoft crowbarring the assistant into as many places as it can find (at least until recently) and Suleyman is now making what looks for all intents and purposes like a sideways move to focus on superintelligence and delivery of “world-class models for Microsoft over the next five years.”
Suleyman had already announced he was heading…
