Work is essentially a group sport, but till now AI has largely been a private assistant. In the present day, we’re introducing new collaboration-focused brokers for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers—giving each group, 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 Groups, SharePoint, and Viva Have interaction, to assist teams coordinate, talk, and execute with better 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. Learn on to discover how these brokers turn out to be energetic individuals at each stage of teamwork.
Enabling human-agent groups
New purpose-built brokers present always-on AI embedded the place collaboration occurs. Every agent is grounded within the context of the group and geared up with expertise tailor-made to the distinctive ways in which teams collaborate in channels, conferences, and communities in Groups, and libraries and websites in SharePoint. Let’s say, for instance, a group is engaged on a product launch for “Mission Pluto.”
The group consolidates all their conversations and plans right into a devoted “Mission Pluto” channel in Groups, which is now geared up with a “Mission Pluto Agent.” Customers within the channel can direct this agent to summarize threads, distill choices, draft plans and posts, schedule checkpoints, and coordinate with the Mission Supervisor Agent to create duties to maintain work transferring.
When it’s time for a planning assembly in Groups to debate “Mission Pluto,” the Facilitator agent for conferences steps in to arrange agendas. Through 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 Mission Supervisor Agent—and even completes some duties by itself. Assembly individuals 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 “Gross sales Neighborhood” in Viva Have interaction, the “Gross sales Neighborhood agent” handles bulletins, solutions frequent questions with cited sources, and helps neighborhood managers maintain discussions energetic and correct in real-time.
Behind the scenes, the Information Agent in SharePoint retains the “Mission Pluto” workspace in form. It organizes and enriches information, applies the best tags, tracks updates, and stitches collectively associated content material from the Groups channel, conferences, and the Gross sales Neighborhood. So, when anybody asks Microsoft 365 Copilot a query—whether or not it’s “What’s our permitted positioning?” or “Which spec is ultimate?”—it pulls the authoritative supply with citations.
Collectively, these brokers maintain each stage of the “Mission Pluto” launch—from planning to execution to communication—working easily, with AI working alongside the group. Groups additionally helps an open ecosystem of partner-built brokers, and with Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP), these brokers can seamlessly collaborate with native Groups 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 Groups easy.
Reimagining teamwork with AI: Getting began
Microsoft 365 Copilot is transferring past private productiveness to allow groups to work along with AI—constructing technique, lowering miscommunication, and accelerating progress. These new collaborative brokers at the moment are out there to all Microsoft 365 Copilot customers in public preview, and Facilitator for Groups conferences is now usually out there. As a result of 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. Listed below are a number of methods to collaborate with AI:
- Use Facilitator on your subsequent group assembly to generate an agenda, seize choices, mechanically assign follow-ups, and pressure-test the details made in the course of the assembly.
- Ask the agent in certainly one of your Groups channels to draft a standing report from the previous week, based mostly on channel conversations, and any conferences it participated in.
- Allow an agent in your busiest Viva Have interaction neighborhood, and evaluate the solutions supplied by your neighborhood’s agent along with your response.
- Ask the Information Agent to tag and set up all related information for a mission you’re engaged on, then create a mission abstract you may share with stakeholders.
Unlocking AI collaboration with Microsoft
Be taught extra about Microsoft 365 Copilot, and discover the sources under to study extra concerning the collaborative AI capabilities described above:
