Posted 3/26/2024, 1:10:00 AM
Microsoft Shakes Up Leadership After AI Push, Bing Head Parakhin Exits Key Roles
- Microsoft's Mikhail Parakhin, head of Bing and advertising, to exit those roles after AI leader appointment
- Parakhin to report to CTO while seeking next role; Bing/ads work shifted to Pavan Davuluri
- Move comes after Satya Nadella appointed DeepMind co-founder to oversee consumer AI, showing impatience
- Bing has made little progress against Google; AI products like Copilot assistants still works in progress
- Signals increased focus on unifying, accelerating progress on consumer AI products