Microsoft desires to make its brand of generative AI more useful for teams – especially teams in corporations and huge business organizations.
This morning at its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft announced Team Copilot, the newest addition to its Copilot family of generative AI technology. Unlike Microsoft's previous Copilot products, Team Copilot isn’t a single solution, but somewhat a set of features geared toward “enhancing collaboration” and “streamlining project management.”
“(Team) Copilot gives teams the flexibility to be more productive and inventive by taking up administrative tasks that might be time-consuming and expensive,” writes Jared Spataro, CVP of AI at Work at Microsoft, in a blog entry shared with TechCrunch.
Team Copilot integrates with Teams, Microsoft's video conferencing app, to assist manage meeting agendas and create notes that anyone in a gathering can co-author. Team Copilot summarizes information in text chats (with a bit luck exactly) and answers questions on what was discussed within the group.
Team Copilot goes beyond Teams and includes Loop and Planner, Microsoft's collaboration and planning platforms, to create and assign tasks, track deadlines, and notify team members when their input is required. In Planner, Copilot may also help break large work items into steps and supply answers to questions on things like task progress, priorities, and stakeholders' workloads.
Microsoft declares that Team Copilot features can be available in preview later this yr to customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license, starting at $30 per user per 30 days.
