Microsoft Teams Lands on Android Auto Soon, While Microsoft and OneMeta Partner on Teams Translation Service
Microsoft Teams is coming to Android Auto in February.
Android Auto, an app that allows Android phones to connect to a car’s built-in infotainment system, will add Microsoft’s communication and collaboration platform in February, nearly a year after first being announced at Google’s I/O 2023 event.
Users can join meetings and make calls from the calendar view. However, there’s no further information on whether Android Auto will also integrate with chat and channel messaging or complement other Teams features like file sharing.
Google announced Android Auto integration for Teams, Zoom and Webex at its I/O in 2023, with both latter platforms landing on the app last September. It’s unclear why it’s taken so long for Teams to follow suit.
In other Teams news, Microsoft and OneMeta have partnered to introduce the latter’s AI-powered translation and transcription Verbum service to the former’s video conferencing platform.
OneMeta’s Verbum software translates and transcribes in over 140 languages and has now reached Microsoft IP Co-sell Ready Status. Practically, the fusion of Verbum with Microsoft Teams will allow users to communicate in over 140 languages during meetings.
Saul Leal, CEO at OneMeta, said:
By using Verbum for Microsoft Teams, companies, organizations, employees, customers, etc. will all be able to communicate in their native languages. Finally, the last great barrier to inclusion has been conquered. Just think how fast information and intelligence will flow. We will be able to speak, hear, read, and understand one another in our own native language simultaneously.”
This enables the multilingual enablement business joint go-to-market sales activities with Microsoft’s Teams Enterprise worldwide sales teams, while OneMeta’s Verbum software license is also now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource Marketplace online stores.
RingCentral Elects Former Twitter CFO to Board
RingCentral has elected Ned Segal to its Board of Directors.
Segal brings a wealth of experience as a financial executive to RingCentral. He was Chief Financial Officer at Twitter between 2017 and 2022. He was removed from his position along with several other executives after Elon Musk purchased the social media business in October of that year.
Prior to that, Segal was Senior Vice President of Finance of Intuit, an enterprise and financial software business, and Chief Financial Officer of RPX Corporation, a former publicly traded company that offers patent risk management and discovery solutions.
“I’ve known RingCentral and Vlad for more than a decade,” Segal said. “I’m a big believer in founder-led technology companies and see massive opportunity for RingCentral to continue to change how people leverage the cloud to be more productive and communicate more effectively.”
Earlier in his professional life, Segal held various roles at Goldman Sachs, including Head of Global Software Investment Banking. Segal currently serves on the Board of Directors of Beyond Meat, Inc.
Onboarding a figure with as extensive experience as a financial executive as Segal at what RingCentral CEO and Founder Vlad Shmunis, last month, called an “inflexion point” in the UC and collaboration industry suggests Shmunis’s ambition to leverage that sound financial expertise while RingCentral continues to evolve to adapt to an uncertain market.
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Team to Target SMBs
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Team, a paid subscription service for its AI product that’s targeting SMBs.
Positioned between ChatGPT Plus (for individuals) and ChatGPT Enterprise (for large businesses), ChatGPT Team echoes many of the latter’s features. However, ChatGPT Team is designed for teams of 150 users or less.
The subscription includes access to the up-to-date GPT-4 large language model (LLM) and DALL-E 3 image generator, secure control over business data, the capability to create custom GPTs, shared workspace, an admin console for workspace and team management, advanced data analysis, and early access to new features and improvements.
OpenAI’s announcement blog wrote:
ChatGPT Team offers access to our advanced models like GPT-4 and DALL·E 3, and tools like Advanced Data Analysis. It additionally includes a dedicated collaborative workspace for your team and admin tools for team management. As with ChatGPT Enterprise, you own and control your business data—we do not train on your business data or conversations, and our models don’t learn from your usage.”
Pricing begins at $25 per user per month when billed annually and $30 per user per month when done so monthly.
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