Microsoft Groups Premium is now obtainable with options primarily based on the OpenAI GPT-Three.5 AI language mannequin. The brand new premium stage of Microsoft Groups features a good recap function that mechanically generates assembly notes, duties, and highlights due to GPT-Three.5, together with branded conferences, customized assembly templates, and options like watermarking to higher shield assembly content material.
Sensible Recap is the brand new addition to Microsoft Groups Premium, and it might tempt customers to pay the introductory value of $7 monthly per consumer ($10 monthly beginning June 30) simply to get an thought of how helpful will probably be. Sensible Recap makes use of the OpenAI GPT-Three.5 mannequin to generate assembly notes and highlights even when you weren’t current at a gathering.
It makes restoration a lot simpler when conferences occur at troublesome occasions or when staff are in numerous time zones or out of the workplace. Notes, mentions and a full transcript are all obtainable, with every speaker’s contributions highlighted in an orderly timeline by matter and chapter. If a colleague mentions you in a gathering, you will even get personalised timeline markers to shortly see what was shared and mentioned. Whereas most good recap options can be found at present, Microsoft says some will not arrive till the second quarter of 2023.
Microsoft can also be taking some Groups options and making them Premium solely. Dwell translated subtitles, customized staging scenes in Collectively mode, and quite a lot of digital relationship options will now be obtainable just for Premium. Dwell subtitles can be obtainable for a “60-day grace interval” for current Microsoft Groups customers, and digital assembly options will solely be obtainable for 30 days.
The opposite options of Microsoft Groups Premium which may enchantment extra to companies are superior assembly protections. This consists of quite a lot of safety measures, reminiscent of watermarking and labeling delicate content material throughout conferences, or the power to limit customers from recording conferences and copying textual content from assembly chat. Microsoft says these options may “deter leaks” or maintain conversations non-public.
Microsoft Groups Premium additionally consists of webinars so companies can host occasions with registration waitlists, customizable begin and finish occasions, and digital inexperienced rooms.
Microsoft launched a 30-day trial of Groups Premium in December as a preview of the options obtainable at present. Now that the subscription is usually obtainable to all companies, Microsoft Groups Premium is on the market for an introductory value of $7 monthly per consumer till June 30, when it reverts to the usual value of $10 per consumer monthly.