Last week, I reported that Opeli is planning to launch GPT-5 at the beginning of August, as part of simplification and combination of immense language models. Only the day after my reference report to the GPT-5 were noticed in the Microsoft Copilot application, indicating a recent smart mode.
Sources knowing the plans of AI Microsoft tell me that the company is currently testing this recent smart mode for Copilot in both consumer and commercial versions Microsoft 365 Copilot. In the consumer version, the mode is described as offering artificial intelligence, which “thinks deeply or quickly based on the task”, so you don’t have to choose different models.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot version only for employees has a similar smart mode, which allows Copilot to “use the most suitable model so that your request ensures better results”, I found out. None of the internal versions of Copilot mentions GPT-5 yet, and the model suggests that it is still using GPT-4 when answering inquiries. But this interface still indicates a GPT-5 mode for Copilot.
OPENAI CEO Altman itself At the beginning of this year, he revealed that the AI laboratory is working on improving the exemplary CHATGPT collector. “We hate the model model as you and we want to go back to the magical united intelligence,” said Altman in February. In the same Post on XAltman also revealed that the GPT-5 will contain its O3 model instead of sending it as an independent version.
The idea of the “magical” model collector was also used by Microsoft internally. I understand that some parts of Microsoft 365 Copilot in recent weeks show a magic mode, which has been designed in the same way as smart mode. It is likely that the magic mode is simply a cover of the name of the smart mode, and this magical version still does not mention the GPT-5. However, this is not so unusual, because Microsoft usually does not mention the OpenAI model, which it uses for different Copilot modes.
I suspect that this smart mode appears early in Copilot, because Microsoft engineers are preparing for GPT-5 release. Opeli previously directed the earlier version of the GPT-5, and Microsoft usually quickly made its own implementation of OpenAI models in Copilot after releasing them. The AI Microsoft Bing version used the GPT-4 OPENENAI model for six weeks before Opeli officially announced the GPT-4. Microsoft also quickly launched the OPenai reasoning model as part of the Copilot renovation last year, before he released it a few months later. Microsoft even made the Sora video generator for free, a few months after the release of the paid version of OpenAI.
Microsoft refused to comment on the GPT-5 reference in Copilot, and the company also does not comment on the recent smart mode. If everything goes well with the final OPENAI GPT-5 preparations, I expect that we will soon see the smart Copilota mode for everyone.
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