Microsoft has integrated OpenAI's GPT-5 model across its full suite of AI platforms, offering smarter and safer capabilities for everyone from consumers to developers.
Microsoft is upgrading its entire suite of AI offerings, announcing the integration of OpenAI’s powerful new GPT-5 model across its consumer, developer, and enterprise platforms. The news was announced by Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft,
“Today, GPT-5 launches across our platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry,” Nadella wrote on X., “It's the most capable model yet from our partners at OpenAI, bringing powerful new advances in reasoning, coding, and chat, all trained on Azure”.
The rollout, which began on Thursday, makes the most advanced AI capabilities accessible to millions of users, cementing GPT-5 as the new foundation of Microsoft's AI strategy.
A Smarter, Safer, and More Unified AI
GPT-5 represents a significant leap in AI performance. According to the OpenAI CEO, “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like you’re talking to an expert in any topic.”The model boasts major improvements in reasoning, coding, math, and multi-turn conversations.
Internal safety tests conducted by OpenAI's AI Red Team found that GPT-5 exhibited one of the strongest AI safety profiles among prior OpenAI models, with a significantly reduced rate of hallucinations and enhanced security against malicious use.
GPT-5 Supported in a Range of Microsoft Products
The new AI capabilities are being integrated into several key Microsoft products:
- Microsoft Copilot: The company's standalone chatbot is now powered by GPT-5, with a new smart mode designed to handle more complex questions and longer conversations. This upgrade is available to all users, including those without a paid subscription, effectively democratizing access to a state-of-the-art AI model.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot: GPT-5 will provide a major boost to productivity tools. The model's enhanced reasoning allows it to reason over emails, documents, and files, helping professionals tackle more complicated problems and stay on track in extended conversations.
- GitHub Copilot: Developers using paid plans will get a preview of GPT-5, a significant upgrade from its GPT-4-based predecessor. The new model is expected to be a more reliable coding collaborator, capable of generating higher-quality code, fixing bugs, and handling multi-step agentic tasks with improved accuracy.
- Azure AI Foundry: Microsoft's cloud-based platform for AI development is making all GPT-5 models available to developers. A new model router will automatically select the best model for a given task, whether a developer needs a low-latency response or a deep, detailed analysis. The new models offered include
The new models offered include:
- GPT-5: The full reasoning model, with a 272,000 (272k) token context.
- GPT-5 mini: Designed to power real-time experiences.
- GPT-5 nano: A model designed for ultra-low-latency and speedy responses.
- GPT-5 chat: A model that enables natural, multimodal, multi-turn conversations that remain context-aware throughout agentic workflows, with 128,000 (272k) token context.
A New Chapter in the AI Race
GPT-5's arrival is forcing everyone in the AI space to rethink their own strategies. While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has hailed the model as the most capable model yet, the launch has also sparked a fresh round of rivalry, with Elon Musk claiming his own Grok 4 model has already surpassed GPT-5 in intelligence.
Regardless of the competition, Microsoft's deep integration of GPT-5 across its ecosystem demonstrates a clear strategy to embed advanced AI into every layer of its business, from consumer applications to cloud-based development platforms.
