I reported last week that OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, as part of an effort to simplify and combine its large language models. Just a day after my report, references to GPT-5 were spotted inside Microsoft's Copilot web app, hinting at a new smart mode.
Sources familiar with Microsoft's AI plans tell me that the company is currently testing this new smart mode for Copilot across both the consumer version and the commercial Microsoft 365 Copilot. In the consumer version, the mode is described as offering an AI that "thinks deeply or quickly based on the task," so you don't have to pick different models.
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