GPT-5 Arrives: Here's How Microsoft Brings New AI to Its Platforms

Yesterday, OpenAI launched GPT-5, and the announcement marks a new chapter (yet another, one might say) in the now-extensive narrative that is elevating generative AI to the status of the tech "fad" of the moment. The leap forward from the debut of ChatGPT, which marked a sort of watershed between the AI we thought of before its advent and the AI we're learning to understand (agents included) since then, is significant, and Sam Altman himself called it "an important step" towards AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). The introduction of GPT-5 has also seen Microsoft, OpenAI's preferred partner and funder, move in: the new model is already available on the Redmond company's main platforms, specifically Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code, and Azure AI Foundry.

In a post on its official blog, the company highlighted this important update, noting first that virtually all user groups, from consumers to business professionals and developers, will benefit from the advanced reasoning capabilities of GPT-5 (not coincidentally trained in the Azure cloud) within its application tools. The advantages? Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot, for example, promise to be more effective in interpreting and addressing complex questions, maintaining the flow of even the most complex conversational interactions, and providing a more comprehensive understanding of the user's context. Thanks to a real-time routing system, the user no longer has to worry about which model is best suited to complete the task. The impact should be immediately visible in terms of increased productivity, resulting from the ability to analyze emails, documents, and files with OpenAI's most advanced models. The benefits for those who make a living programming and develop agents using GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code are equally clear, including the ability to complete longer and more complex coding tasks and run extended agent-based activities from start to finish. Another benefit Microsoft is announcing for developers is access to the new GPT-5 models in Azure AI Foundry, and therefore the enterprise-grade AI security, compliance, and privacy requirements inherent in the Azure cloud platform.