Microsoft integrates OpenAI's GPT-5 across enterprise and consumer platforms

Technology company rolls out OpenAI's GPT-5 system across Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry platforms. Integration provides users with reasoning capabilities and coding improvements through automated model routing system.

Microsoft has integrated GPT-5, OpenAI's AI system, into its consumer, developer and enterprise product offerings to deliver reasoning capabilities and coding improvements across platforms. GPT-5, trained on Azure infrastructure, includes OpenAI's reasoning models alongside an efficient model to provide users with tools for consumer, enterprise and developer applications.

Enterprise and consumer users accessing Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot receive AI reasoning capabilities to handle complex tasks while maintaining response speed for routine use cases through a real-time routing system that automatically selects models without user intervention.

Developers across Microsoft platforms now have access to GPT-5 through GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code for writing, testing and deploying code using OpenAI's coding and agentic task model. OpenAI states the system can complete longer and more complex coding tasks and execute long-running agentic tasks end-to-end. Developers can access GPT-5 models in Azure AI Foundry with enterprise security, compliance and privacy protections available in Azure, supported by Microsoft's model router in Azure AI Foundry.

The Microsoft AI Red Team tested the GPT-5 reasoning model using security protocols before release. Results indicate the reasoning model exhibited an AI safety profile against attack modes including malware generation, fraud automation and other potential harms compared to previous OpenAI models.

Updates became available recently, providing Microsoft's consumer, developer and enterprise users access to the intelligence and reasoning capabilities of GPT-5 models across multiple platforms.

Microsoft 365 Copilot now processes complex questions, maintains context in longer conversations and understands user context through GPT-5 integration. The platform can address complicated problems, with Microsoft 365 Copilot license holders able to apply reasoning capabilities to emails, documents and files for productivity purposes. GPT-5 is available in Microsoft Copilot Studio, a platform for building custom agents, where users can select GPT-5 in custom prompts to enable agents to handle complex business processes.

Microsoft Copilot functions as an AI companion for daily tasks, assisting users with questions, writing and image creation. Users can experience GPT-5 capabilities in Copilot without cost through the Smart mode that utilizes GPT-5 to provide solutions to queries. Access is available through copilot.microsoft.com or the Copilot app on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices.

GitHub has implemented GPT-5 across paid GitHub Copilot plans, enabling developers to write, test and deploy code through GitHub Copilot Chat on github.com, Visual Studio Code and GitHub Mobile via the model picker. With the Azure AI Foundry extension, developers in VS Code can use GPT-5 to develop agents within the code editor environment.

Azure AI Foundry provides access to all GPT-5 models for developers. The platform's model router maximizes GPT-5 system capabilities and other models in Azure AI Foundry through an AI-powered orchestration layer that evaluates prompts and selects models based on complexity, performance requirements and cost efficiency for each task.