Panos Panay, an almost 20-year veteran who led Microsoft’s Windows team and was central to the company’s hardware push with its Surface computers, said Monday he’s leaving the technology giant.
Amazon.com Inc. is hiring Microsoft Corp.’s product chief to run the division responsible for the voice-activated Alexa assistant and Echo smart speakers, according to people familiar with the situation.
Microsoft is also expected to show new hardware models, as well as artificial intelligence features, at an event in New York Thursday.Two years ago, Microsoft hired senior Amazon cloud executive Charlie Bell to run its cybersecurity efforts. The company’s HoloLens mixed-reality goggles project, overseen by Panay since 2022, has also struggled, thanks in part to a delayed US Army contract.
The emergence of ChatGPT and other conversant chatbots powered by generative artificial intelligence has highlighted Alexa’s shortcomings.
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