Microsoft 365 Copilot: Enabling human-agent groups

Work is essentially a staff sport, but till now AI has largely been a private assistant. Today, we’re introducing new collaboration-focused brokers for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers—giving each staff, mission, assembly, and neighborhood an AI teammate, including context-aware AI to assist the distinctive wants of each collaboration situation.  

These new collaborative brokers are designed to boost work throughout Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage, to assist teams coordinate, talk, and execute with larger readability and effectivity. By leveraging work intelligence from Microsoft Graph, these brokers ship context-aware assist whereas upholding enterprise-grade safety, id, compliance, and admin controls—serving to interactions stay productive and guarded. Read on to discover how these brokers change into lively contributors at each stage of teamwork. 

Enabling human-agent groups 

New purpose-built brokers present always-on AI embedded the place collaboration occurs. Each agent is grounded within the context of the group and outfitted with abilities tailor-made to the distinctive ways in which teams collaborate in channels, conferences, and communities in Teams, and libraries and websites in SharePoint. Let’s say, for instance, a staff is engaged on a product launch for “Project Pluto.” 

The staff consolidates all their conversations and plans right into a devoted “Project Pluto” channel in Teams, which is now outfitted with a “Project Pluto Agent.” Users within the channel can direct this agent to summarize threads, distill choices, draft plans and posts, schedule checkpoints, and coordinate with the Project Manager Agent to create duties to maintain work shifting. 

When it’s time for a planning assembly in Teams to debate “Project Pluto,” the Facilitator agent for conferences steps in to arrange agendas. During the assembly, it proactively takes notes, retains the dialogue on monitor, captures choices, and converts them into owned actions with follow-ups—absolutely tracked via integration with the Project Manager Agent—and even completes some duties by itself. Meeting contributors can collectively information the agent to do issues like re-arrange the agenda or set a gathering timer. 

And to amplify the product launch throughout the “Sales Community” in Viva Engage, the “Sales Community agent” handles bulletins, solutions frequent questions with cited sources, and helps neighborhood managers hold discussions lively and correct in real-time.

Behind the scenes, the Knowledge Agent in SharePoint retains the “Project Pluto” workspace in form. It organizes and enriches recordsdata, applies the proper tags, tracks updates, and stitches collectively associated content material from the Teams channel, conferences, and the Sales Community. So, when anybody asks Microsoft 365 Copilot a query—whether or not it’s “What’s our approved positioning?” or “Which spec is final?”—it pulls the authoritative supply with citations. 

Together, these brokers hold each stage of the “Project Pluto” launch—from planning to execution to communication—working easily, with AI working alongside the staff. Teams additionally helps an open ecosystem of partner-built brokers, and with Model Context Protocol (MCP), these brokers can seamlessly collaborate with native Teams brokers—sharing context and invoking every others’ instruments inside the similar workflow. We’re excited to work with companions to develop options to make cross-platform collaboration with Teams easy. 

Reimagining teamwork with AI: Getting began 

Microsoft 365 Copilot is shifting past private productiveness to allow groups to work along with AI—constructing technique, lowering miscommunication, and accelerating progress. These new collaborative brokers are actually obtainable to all Microsoft 365 Copilot customers in public preview, and Facilitator for Teams conferences is now usually obtainable. Because these experiences are constructed on the identical safety, compliance, and privateness requirements that underpin Microsoft 365, organizations can undertake them with confidence. 

To get began, merely ask any of those brokers for assist wherever you’re working. Here are a number of methods to collaborate with AI: 

• Use Facilitator to your subsequent staff assembly to generate an agenda, seize choices, routinely assign follow-ups, and pressure-test the details made throughout the assembly. 
• Ask the agent in considered one of your Teams channels to draft a standing report from the previous week, based mostly on channel conversations, and any conferences it participated in. 
• Enable an agent in your busiest Viva Engage neighborhood, and examine the solutions offered by your neighborhood’s agent along with your response. 
• Ask the Knowledge Agent to tag and set up all related recordsdata for a mission you’re engaged on, then create a mission abstract you’ll be able to share with stakeholders.

Unlocking AI collaboration with Microsoft

Learn extra about Microsoft 365 Copilot, and discover the sources beneath to study extra in regards to the collaborative AI capabilities described above: