August 12th, 2025
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GPT-5 Now Available in Visual Studio

Rhea Patel
Product Manager

We’re excited to share that GPT-5, OpenAI’s latest frontier model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio.

GPT-5 offers faster responses and even better performance for writing and understanding code. This release brings a new level of capability to your development workflow, making it easier to move from idea to implementation.

Try it now: Click the Copilot badge in your IDE, open Chat, and select GPT-5 (Preview).

Why GPT-5 Matters to you

GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced model to date. It delivers substantial improvements in:

  • Reasoning and decision-making for complex coding tasks
  • Code quality and maintainability, even for large implementations with minimal prompting
  • Clarity of explanations, giving you a better understanding of the changes it makes

From building end-to-end features to understanding unfamiliar codebases, GPT-5 is designed to help you move faster while staying in control.

Availability

GPT-5 is rolling out to all paid Copilot plans starting today. You can access it in both Agent Mode and Ask Mode. If you do not yet see GPT-5 in your model picker, check back soon as rollout continues. Note: As GPT‑5 becomes more widely available, GitHub has announced the phased deprecation of several older models, see: Upcoming deprecation of o1, GPT-4.5, o3-mini, and GPT-4o – GitHub Changelog

For Copilot Enterprise and Business customers:
Administrators must enable the GPT-5 policy in Copilot settings. Once enabled, users in the organization will be able to select GPT-5 in the model picker in Visual Studio.

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Rhea Patel
Product Manager

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  • Farid Ahmad Atal

    Hey ms Rhea patel
    I am farid Ahmad Atal I want the chat gpt 5 but I cant find it

    • Rhea PatelMicrosoft employee Author

      How abouts now?

  • Aguilera, Giancarlo

    I’m really excited, and I can’t wait to try it. Unfortunately, my company disallows preview features, so I hope it reaches GA soon.

    • Rhea PatelMicrosoft employee Author

      Good to know, hopefully it will GA soon 🙂

  • Andreas Saurwein

    First impression in VS2022 – worse than 4.1, too much code change that is not requested, seems like it wants to be helpful but doesn’t have a clue.

    • Rhea PatelMicrosoft employee Author

      Heard this feedback 🙂 We are making some prompting changes for it. Try it again in the next release