Microsoft announced the upcoming Teams AI capabilities would be powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 natural language model weeks after extending its multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI.
Teams Premium, a new tier of Microsoft Teams now generally available to customers, uses the latest version of GPT — the OpenAI artificial intelligence engine and database on which ChatGPT is based — to underpin the AI capabilities available to users of the new version of the collaboration application.
Teams meeting recordings will be divided into chapters, titles and section descriptions generated by GPT-3.5. Personalised timeline markers will be added that indicates when a user joined or left a meeting and when a name or screen was mentioned.
As a long-time supporter of OpenAI, Microsoft invested $1 billion in the company in 2019 to support its goal of creating “artificial general intelligence” and became the first company to licence GPT in 2020.