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ZDNET's key takeaways
Microsoft is rolling out GPT-5 to all its AI offerings, Thursday.
The Copilot chatbot will provide GPT-5, even to free users.
GPT-5 will also be available to coding and enterprise tools.
OpenAI released its much-anticipated upgrade to the engine that powers ChatGPT and many other AI implementations, including Microsoft's AI offerings, on Thursday.
Concurrent with the GPT-5 release, Microsoft announced that it is upgrading its consumer, developer, and enterprise users with the GPT-5 models.
Also: GPT-5 is finally here, and you can access it for free - no subscription needed
The company called specific attention to the testing results of its AI Red Team, which is OpenAI's security and harm-reduction operation.
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
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