If you’re not already using ChatGPT to browse information and take on writing tasks, you’ll soon be able to get a taste of it with the Teams Premium Microsoft 365 add-on subscription.
Teams Premium is now generally available and Microsoft has revealed that the AI features it gets – such as a smart meeting recap – are powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 series of large language models that are behind the OpenAI ChatGPT’s best-selling chatbot and are available to developers through Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service APIs.
“Teams Premium brings the latest technologies, including OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 powered big language models, to make meetings smarter, personalized and protected, whether one-to-one meetings, large meetings, virtual meetings or webinars,” says Microsoft. in an ad.
Microsoft is offering an introductory price of $7 per month for the Teams Premium subscription. Pricing is available for the entire term of the initial subscription (excluding certain monthly subscriptions and certain monthly subscriptions billed annually over three years). The offer ends on June 30, 2023, when it reverts to the standard price of $10 per month per user, as it has been promoted since its preview launch last October.
Microsoft 365 and Office 365 licenses, such as E3 and E5, are required for the Teams Premium subscription. Microsoft’s recent survey of 4,500 workers revealed high demand for AI tools to automate mundane tasks. So it may be that Teams users are pressuring employers to buy the subscription.
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Microsoft says Teams Premium obviates the need for third-party add-ons that some professionals buy to enhance webinars, virtual appointments, and meeting intelligence.
The smart recap has so far been the primary description of Teams Premium’s AI features, but Microsoft has now detailed more features that public experimentation with ChatGPT online has demonstrated, from answering complex questions to writing essays, solving coding questions, and generating questions. a university professor would use.
Teams Premium AI-generated chapters divide PowerPoint Live meeting recordings into sections. For Teams itself, the smart recap does this work based on meeting transcripts.
Custom timeline markers help catch up on missed meeting minutes by marking when the user joined or left. It will also optionally mark where the user’s name was mentioned, when a screen was shared, who spoke in a meeting, and when the user spoke during a meeting.
GPT-3.5 also underpins the notes generated by Teams Premium AI, which create key points and key points captured during a meeting. The idea is that users can focus on the meeting rather than taking notes.
As Microsoft has previously indicated, the Smart Summarization capabilities won’t be available until Q2 2023.
Microsoft’s $10 billion investment in OpenAI has helped revamp its messaging around workers wanting AI in products including Microsoft 365/Office 365, Azure, and GitHub’s Codex-powered pair coding tool , copilot. Microsoft chief Satya Nadella said last month that Microsoft will “integrate AI into every layer of the stack” across productivity and consumer services.
Microsoft is reportedly testing ChatGPT to answer some questions from Bing to challenge Google in search. Google would also test internal ChatGPT responses for Google Search.
Other AI features in Teams Premium that will be available in mid-February include live translations, brand meetings, organization backgrounds, organization mode scenes together and a meeting model for IT administrators. Other features include advanced meeting protection, content watermarking to deter leaks, and limits on who can record.
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Teams Virtual Appointments has been in preview since October and allows external attendees to join a branded virtual lobby room via message.
Microsoft reported this month that it had seen “strong interest” in Teams Premium. The company is eyeing subscriptions like this to boost revenue as cloud revenue growth (including Azure and Office 365) slows and Windows OEM revenue declines. This change comes as growth in the number of Teams users is also slowing.
Teams now has 280 million monthly active users, up from 270 million monthly active users reported in January 2022. Thanks to the pandemic, the number of Teams users more than tripled between 2020 and 2021, from 44 million daily active users in March 2020 to 145. million daily active users in April 2021.
Microsoft Teams Premium gets a GPT boost.
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