March 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft ( MSFT ) said on Tuesday

it is reorganizing its Copilot teams by unifying its commercial

and consumer versions, as the tech giant rushes to improve its

AI assistant product and drive better adoption.

The restructuring will free up Microsoft's ( MSFT ) AI chief Mustafa

Suleyman, enabling the industry veteran to focus more sharply on

building new artificial intelligence models and drive the

company's superintelligence efforts.

Jacob Andreou, who has served as the corporate vice

president of Product and Growth at Microsoft AI since last year,

will lead the company's Copilot efforts across consumer and

commercial, Microsoft ( MSFT ) said.

Senior executives Ryan Roslansky, Perry Clarke, and Charles

Lamanna will lead M365 apps and the Copilot platform.

The reorganization will "enable me to focus all my energy on

our Superintelligence efforts and be able to deliver world class

models for Microsoft ( MSFT ) over the next five years," Suleyman said.

Microsoft ( MSFT ) has been racing to boost adoption and usage of

Copilot, looking to better compete with tech giants such as

Google and startups like Anthropic, which have seen

strong uptake of their own AI products in the past year.

The Windows maker last week unveiled Copilot Cowork, a tool

based on Anthropic's viral Claude Cowork product, which has seen

strong reception, with users praising its ability to ​handle

complex tasks with limited human oversight.