Microsoft is expanding its Intelligent Recap capability for Teams Premium to Copilot users.
Intelligent Recap was previously exclusive to Teams Premium subscribers but will become available for those who use Teams with Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot chatbot.
The feature means that Copilot users can request an AI-honed summary of a past video meeting, encompassing timeline markers, screen sharing information, and when the user’s name was mentioned.
Microsoft’s official roadmap wrote:
Copilot users can access intelligent recap after meetings to get a summary of the meeting, including: personalized timeline markers to easily browse the recordings by when you joined or left, when a screen was shared, and when your name was mentioned; browse recordings by speakers, chapters, and topics; as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, tasks, and jump to name mentions in the transcript.”
Intelligent Recap for Copilot in Teams launches this month for desktop and Mac Teams users and 365 Copilot subscribers.
What Else Has Happened to Copilot Since Its Launch?
Over the past week, Microsoft launched Android and iOS apps for Copilot.
The Copilot mobile app is functionally similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile version, encompassing a clean interface in which users have access to write prompts to ask questions, summarise text, draft emails, blogs and documents. Users can also generate images by using its DALL-E 3 image creator technology.
The app also includes access to one of OpenAI’s latest LLMs, GPT-4, which users must otherwise pay for access to when utilised through ChatGPT — the free ChatGPT service still uses GPT-3.5.
Users can download the Android app from the Google Play Store and the iOS version from the Apple App Store.
In October, Microsoft announced the “next-generation” of OneDrive, which features new file views, governance controls, creation tools, and, critically, Copilot. This formally launched last month.
Copilot is now available for Microsoft 365 subscribers to search, organise, and retrieve data from their OneDrive files. Users can ask questions relevant to a specific file or request content summaries.
Microsoft first announced Copilot would be integrated with OneDrive at Microsoft Build last May and then again in September. Using Microsoft 365 Chat, users can leverage Copilot’s AI capabilities with all Microsoft 365 data, such as OneDrive and SharePoint files. Looking ahead, Microsoft is now working on new Copilot skills to simplify OneDrive organisation. Copilot will be able to create a new folder based on file searches.
Microsoft Security Copilot, the tech giant’s AI assistant for security teams, became available in early access for qualified customers in October.
First announced in March 2023 as part of Copilot’s wider reveal, Security Copilot is a generative AI security solution empowering businesses’ protection with machine speed and scale. The Early Access Programme includes new features, such as a Security Copilot experience residing within Microsoft’s extended detection and response (XDR) platform, Microsoft 365 Defender, guiding analysts with critical insights and recommendations via a unified interface.
November’s Microsoft Ignite saw several significant announcements around Copilot, including the update that the previously separate products Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise were now part of the Copilot branding. This was a move intending to make Copilot more accessible for everyone to illustrate the tech giant’s new, premier AI-powered productivity tool through Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
Other Copilot news from Ignite included Microsoft 365 for frontline workers F3 subscribers gaining access to Copilot. These capabilities encompass commercial data protection, allowing frontline workers to make intelligent requests such as noting current inventory stocks without having to worry about sensitive data leaks. Teams Phone also experienced Copilot updates, such as the automating of less critical tasks and identification of essential discussion points and next steps.
