Microsoft Teams Gets Smarter with New AI-Powered Meeting Assistant

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I explore Microsoft’s new
Facilitator Agent in Teams and how it’s quietly revolutionizing
meeting collaboration through agentic AI.


Highlights


00:07 — Microsoft has added a Facilitator Agent
to Teams. This new agent can create agendas, take notes, help
keep discussions on track, create follow-ups, and even
pressure-test discussion points. There's a difference between
this agent and other note-taking and summarization tools already
available. The Facilitator Agent participates in the discussion,
as a silent partner.


00:41 — It can alert users when time is running
out and ensure that participants don't stray too far from the
core discussion points. It can even answer open-ended questions
during a chat.
Now, as someone who has a lot of online meetings, I can really
see the benefits here — not only from a time management and
efficiency perspective, but also from a collaborative
standpoint.
 


01:22 — It's important to highlight innovations
like these that, at first glance, don't seem particularly new or
exciting — especially when we think we already have the
capabilities that they are presenting at our fingertips. Instead,
this demonstrates the incremental progress happening in the
agentic AI space. It's encouraging to see refinement in core use
cases.


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