Microsoft Teams Integrates AI Agents for Smarter Collaboration
▼ Summary
– Microsoft is adding AI agents called Copilot to Teams for every channel, meeting, and community, also extending to SharePoint and Viva Engage for Microsoft 365 Copilot users.
– Facilitator agents in Teams meetings create agendas, take notes, answer questions, suggest time allotments, and generate documents and tasks, with a mobile version for quick activation.
– Channel agents answer questions based on previous conversations and meetings and generate project status reports, while community agents in Viva Engage support admins by answering user questions.
– Knowledge agents operate in SharePoint to organize, tag, and summarize files automatically in the background.
– Facilitator agents are available now, with document and task creation in public preview, alongside previews of a redesigned Workflows tool and an audio recap generator based on meeting notes.
Microsoft Teams is introducing a suite of AI-powered agents designed to enhance workplace collaboration, offering Copilot assistants across channels, meetings, and communities. These intelligent tools are now available for Microsoft 365 Copilot users and extend their functionality to SharePoint and Viva Engage, promising a more integrated and efficient digital workspace.
Facilitator agents now join Teams meetings to handle tasks like drafting agendas, recording notes, and responding to participant inquiries. They can recommend time allocations for discussion points, alert the group when timelines are exceeded, and even generate documents and assign follow-up tasks. A streamlined mobile version allows users to activate the agent instantly with one tap, ensuring even impromptu conversations, like a quick hallway chat or an unplanned sync, are captured and organized.
Channel agents provide answers by drawing from past discussions and meetings within a specific channel. They can also produce project status reports automatically, keeping teams aligned without manual effort. Over in Viva Engage, Microsoft’s platform for organization-wide social networking, community agents assist group administrators by fielding questions from members and maintaining engagement. Meanwhile, knowledge agents operate quietly within SharePoint, where they categorize, label, and summarize documents to improve content discoverability.
The facilitator agents are already accessible, though features like document and task creation are currently in public preview alongside the other newly announced agent types. Also in preview are an updated Workflows tool for building AI-driven task automations and a new feature that produces audio summaries derived from meeting notes.
(Source: The Verge)
