Microsoft

Tech company

Cloud and AI platform, partner and investor in OpenAI.

Key people

Photo: Brian Smale and Microsoft, CC BY-SA 4.0

Satya Nadella

Chairman & CEO

Chief executive of Microsoft since 2014 and chairman since 2021, architect of the company's partnership with OpenAI. In March 2026 he restructured Microsoft's AI organisation, putting Copilot under Jacob Andreou and refocusing Microsoft AI on frontier models.

Photo: Christopher Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0

Mustafa Suleyman

CEO of Microsoft AI

Co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, he joined Microsoft in 2024 as CEO of Microsoft AI. Since March 2026 he has focused on superintelligence and Microsoft's in-house MAI frontier models.

@mustafasuleyman

Photo: Vetala Hawkins and Microsoft, CC BY-SA 4.0

Kevin Scott

CTO & EVP of AI

Microsoft's chief technology officer since 2017, responsible for company-wide AI strategy and infrastructure decisions. He was a key architect of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership.

Events (18)

25 Sep 2026

Microsoft

Key people

Satya Nadella

Mustafa Suleyman

Kevin Scott

Events (18)

Microsoft relaunches Copilot as unified Home, Code and Autopilot platform

Microsoft opens its MAI model Code of Conduct to public consultation

Microsoft unveils MAI-Thinking-1, its first flagship reasoning model

Microsoft and OpenAI end exclusivity in rewritten partnership

Anthropic unveils Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing

Microsoft and Nvidia to invest up to $15B in Anthropic

OpenAI completes recapitalization into a public benefit corporation

Microsoft adds Anthropic's Claude models to Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft AI unveils its first in-house models, MAI-1-preview and MAI-Voice-1

OpenAI raises $6.6B at $157B valuation

Microsoft announces Copilot+ PCs

OpenAI launches GPT-4o

Microsoft releases Phi-3 small language models

Microsoft launches Copilot (rebranding Bing Chat)

Microsoft announces Copilot Studio

Meta and Microsoft launch Llama 2

OpenAI releases GPT-4

Microsoft extends multi-year OpenAI partnership