Microsoft Enhances Teams with New AI Agents for Enhanced Collaboration

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Microsoft is expanding its AI capabilities within Teams today, introducing a suite of new AI-powered agents designed to improve communication, organization, and productivity across the platform. These Copilot assistants are now available for every channel, meeting, and community, and will also extend their functionality to SharePoint and Viva Engage environments. The rollout is primarily targeted at Microsoft 365 Copilot users.

New AI Facilitator Agents for Meetings

Facilitator agents are now integrated into Teams meetings, assisting users by:

• Creating agendas to organize discussions
• Taking notes automatically
• Answering questions during meetings
• Suggesting time allocations for various topics
• Notifying participants if discussions run over time
• Generating relevant documents and tasks

A mobile version of these agents is designed for quick activation with a simple tap, ensuring common in-person interactions like hallway chats or spontaneous syncs aren’t disrupted.

Channel and Community Agents

Channel agents serve as intelligent assistants within specific Teams channels by:

• Answering questions based on past conversations and meetings
• Generating status reports on ongoing projects

Within Viva Engage, Microsoft’s enterprise social network platform, community agents support community administrators by:

• Answering user questions
• Facilitating community management

Knowledge Management in SharePoint

Behind the scenes, knowledge agents operate within SharePoint to:

• Organize files
• Tag content
• Summarize documents for easier access

Current and Upcoming Features

Most of these new agents, including facilitator assistants, are available now in public preview, with some capabilities like document creation and task management also accessible in limited previews. Other announced features include:

• A redesigned Workflows tool for creating AI-driven automations
• An audio recap generator that summarizes meeting notes

Microsoft continues to enhance Teams with these intelligent tools, aiming to streamline collaboration, bolster productivity, and foster smoother communication across entire organizations.

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