August 7th is undoubtedly a big day in the artificial intelligence world, as OpenAI finally released GPT-5 to all ChatGPT users.MicrosoftAs one of OpenAI’s largest partners, it is not far behind this time, deploying OpenAI’s latest technology in Copilot and other AI services.
Today, the software giant announced that GPT-5 is available across all consumer, developer, and enterprise products, including Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code, and Azure AI Foundry:
Today, Microsoft OpenAI is integrating GPT-5 (OpenAI’s best AI system to date) into many of its products, bringing new reasoning capabilities and improvements to its programming and chat functions across platforms. GPT-5 is trained on Azure and incorporates OpenAI’s latest inference models with an intelligent and efficient model so users, whether they are consumers, enterprises or developers, can find the right tool to complete the task at hand.
In the announcement, Microsoft said GPT-5 allows Microsoft 365 Copilot to better understand and answer complex questions, stay clear during long conversations, and better understand context. It can also handle emails, documents, and files. Additionally, GPT-5 will be available in Copilot Studio, where developers can build custom proxies.
GPT-5 is also coming soon to Microsoft Copilot for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and the web (copilot.microsoft.com). You can switch to the latest model by clicking "Quick" in the editor and selecting the "Smart" option that you discovered a few days ago. Like OpenAI, Microsoft will not restrict Copilot Pro users from accessing GPT-5. The new model is free to use on computers, mobile devices and the web.
For developers, anyone with a paid GitHub Copilot plan can write, test, and deploy code using GPT-5. Azure AI Foundry also allows developers to integrate GPT-5 into applications.
Microsoft's announcement post can be viewed on the official website.