Microsoft top Office executive Rajesh Jha retiring after more than 35 years
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Rajesh Jha helped Microsoft bring to market an artificial intelligence assistant containing OpenAI models for its Office productivity customers.
Microsoft said Thursday that Rajesh Jha, the software vendor's highest-ranking executive supervising Office, is retiring in July after more than 35 years at the company.
Jha's departure is a significant loss for Microsoft as the company tries to both collaborate and compete with generative artificial intelligence model developers Anthropic and OpenAI, and comes less than a month after Microsoft announced the retirement of longtime gaming chief Phil Spencer.
Under Jha, Microsoft has incorporated models from the two hyper-growth startups into the 365 Copilot add-on for widely used Microsoft 365 commercial subscriptions.
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