Microsoft is filling Teams with AI agents

Microsoft is adding a full load of AI agents to Teams today, promising Copilot assistants for each channel, meeting, and community. The caller agents volition besides enactment crossed SharePoint and Viva Engage, and are rolling retired for Microsoft 365 Copilot users.

Facilitator agents volition present beryllium successful connected Teams meetings, creating agendas, taking notes, and answering questions. Agents tin besides suggest clip allotments for antithetic gathering topics — letting participants cognize if they’re moving implicit — and make documents and tasks. A mobile mentation is designed to beryllium activated “with a azygous tap” truthful you tin marque definite the cause doesn’t miss retired connected “a speedy hallway chat oregon a spontaneous in-person sync.”

Channel agents are designed to reply questions based connected a channel’s erstwhile conversations and meetings and tin besides make presumption reports for a task the aforesaid way. There are besides assemblage agents wrong Viva Engage, Microsoft’s instrumentality connected company-wide societal networks, which enactment likewise but mostly service to enactment assemblage admins, answering questions from different users. Knowledge agents tally successful SharePoint down the scenes, organizing, tagging, and summarizing files.

Facilitator agents are disposable now, though their quality to make documents and tasks is successful nationalist preview, arsenic are the different recently announced agents. They’re joined successful preview by a redesigned Workflows instrumentality to make AI automations of tasks, and a instrumentality to make audio recaps based connected gathering notes.