Microsoft has added new features to its Teams Premium that are powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to make meetings artificial intelligence (AI)-powered.

The new features aim to make meetings more intelligent, personalized, and secure, whether they are one-on-one, large meetings, virtual appointments, or webinars, according to a blog post published by the tech giant on Wednesday.

“With a 252 per cent increase in weekly time spent in meetings in the first two years of the pandemic, we needed to find ways to work smarter, not harder.

Users will receive automatically generated meeting notes, recommended tasks, and personalized highlights with the ‘intelligent recap’ feature.

This feature, which will be available in the second quarter of this year, will help users save time spent reviewing meeting recordings.

The ‘AI-generated chapters’ will divide the meeting into sections, making it easier to select the most relevant content for users. “PowerPoint Live meeting recordings” are now available.

“Intelligent recap will also automatically generate meeting chapters based on the meeting transcript,” according to the company.

Users can now use personalised timeline markers to “call out when you joined or left a meeting in the meeting recording, so you can quickly click and listen in on what you missed.”

When the user’s name was mentioned and a screen was shared, the timeline markers will also be expanded.

“In the coming months, you’ll see key points and takeaways from the meeting, with AI-generated notes automatically created and powered by GPT-3.5,” the tech behemoth said.

“AI is also here to assist with some of the most difficult collaboration challenges, such as working with people who speak different languages natively. Anyone in Teams can enable live captions to see real-time captions in the spoken language “It went on to say.

Microsoft also introduced new brand features such as ‘Branded meetings,’ ‘organization backgrounds,’ and ‘organization together mode scenes,’ among others.

Furthermore, users can purchase Teams Premium for $7 until June 30, after which it will be $10.