What’s happening: While we were deciding if “Just Ask ChatGPT” would catch on, Microsoft hit us with a bombshell. Microsoft is integrating OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 into Teams. This integration is happening in ways that are nothing short of mind-blowing. In today’s newsletter, we discuss this romance between Microsoft and OpenAI, what’s available to the market, and what we can expect.

The romance: On January 23, 2023, Microsoft announced the third phase of its partnership with OpenAI. A multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment to “accelerate AI breakthroughs to ensure these benefits are broadly shared with the world.” The rumored $10 billion investment is to be deployed in three main areas; 

• The development and deployment of specialized supercomputing at sale. It intends for this to accelerate OpenAI’s research while also building out Azure’s infrastructure to handle more AI workload
• Deploying OpenAI’s models across its consumer and enterprise products while introducing new digital experiences
• Being the exclusive cloud provider to power all OpenAI’s workloads across research, products, and API services.

What’s available now? While rumors circulated about how OpenAI's GPT would be integrated into Bing, we thought "just Bing it" sounded really cool. Microsoft announced Teams Premium on February 1, 2023. It marketed it as cutting costs and adding AI-powered productivity. As the world's economy and work patterns change, every company is now trying to increase productivity while slashing overhead costs by a large amount. Microsoft claims it can solve this with its integration of GPT in teams.

Let’s dive into what integrations Microsoft Teams has made with OpenAI’s GPT-3.5.

• Automatic recap: this feature allows users get automatically generated meeting notes, recommended tasks, and personalized highlights. AI generated chapters divide the meetings into sections to make them easy to pick content relavant to you. This means that even if you miss a part of the meeting, you never have to worry about what was said anymore.
• Personalized timeline markers: ever wished you could go back to a particular point in a meeting? This could be cause you had to quickly jump off the call or you experienced a network glitch. Personalized timeline markers which can only be seen by you helps solve this. It calls out when you joined or left the meeting so you can listen in on what you missed. In the future, Teams wants to also indicate when your name was mentioned or a screen shared. 
• Live translations: perhaps the biggest addition of AI  to Teams is the ability to translate languages in real time. This will help collaboration efforts between people who speak different native languages. By turning on live captions, participants get to see the captions of what’s been spoken in their chosen language. It currently has the capability to translate 40+ language. Best part, only the organizer needs to have Teams Premium to enable this feature for the meetings.

What's next: Microsoft has promised more Team updates, some of which will be available as early as the second quarter of 2023. Here are some of them:

• Speaker timeline markers: this will show you who spoke during a meeting, when they spoke, and allow you jump to the moment in the meeting so you’re always up to date on important discussions. This will also be intelligently organized by who you work most closely with so you never miss an update from your manager again. 
• Intelligent recap: with this, Microsoft promises that you can focus solely on your meetings and not note taking anymore. It’ll give you key points and takeaways after the meetings with AI generated notes, and action items automatically suggested for you.

• Analyze edge cases
• Look up data similar to edge cases, based on algorithms
• Extract particular data that represent the whole
• Therefore, save time and cost

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