GPT-5 arrives in Copilot – and more updates that save time
It’s week ten in my #SummerOfCopilot series. Hope you’re having a great summer! Today’s Navigator is a quick look at roadmap news over the past two weeks.
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This week, we’re keeping Copilot Navigator short and focused. I’m mid‑stream on two weeks of real‑world Copilot case studies, so here’s a concise look at the biggest news leaders should care about now and how it translates to outcomes for your team.
(For a deeper exploration of Copilot roadmap news, be sure to check out today’s full Synozur blog post - GPT-5 Meets Microsoft 365 Copilot)
GPT-5 Released
On August 7, 2025, OpenAI officially launched GPT-5, its most advanced AI model to date, now powering ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and its API offerings. Users are already seeing benefits like faster response times, improved accuracy, and deeper reasoning for complex tasks such as coding, writing, and healthcare.
The rollout, which reached over 700 million users, was marked by both excitement and turbulence, including a few technical hiccups. Despite these challenges, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman remained bullish, stating, “I tried going back to GPT-4, and it was quite miserable”. [Source: CNBC]
At the same time, Microsoft introduced GPT‑5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing a smarter ‘router’ that picks the best reasoning mode per task—fast responses for routine questions and deeper analysis for complex work. If you have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, GPT‑5 is available now in Copilot Chat with a ‘Try GPT‑5’ option; broader access is rolling out in the coming weeks.
GPT-5 is being added across the board for Microsoft - GitHub, Azure, Power Platform and more. For leaders, this means higher‑quality decisions from the same prompt—less tinkering, more clarity, and better follow‑through.
TIP: You don't necessarily need to invoke the Researcher agent to get deep research. It's a powerful capability - but it can take 5-15 minutes. I found it helps to remind Copilot that it doesn't need to do new research if you're just asking it to format something that was the result of prior research.; no need to start again from scratch if you already have the right material. See: Microsoft GPT-5 Announcement
Roadmap watch — updates that save time
PowerPoint from a Copilot Page
Roadmap ID 499425 | Rollout start: August CY2025
Generate a PowerPoint deck grounded on a Copilot Page—turn curated knowledge into a board‑ready narrative in minutes. Copilot and PowerPoint, with the right template, can work magic to generate a new deck from your ideas and concepts. But if your ideas and concepts came from copilot itself fitting it into the 800-character limit can be hard. You can save the results as a Word document, but now you can use the easy Edit in Pages feature to generate a Microsoft Loop page which shows up easily as a file attachment inside Copilot for PowerPoint.
Teams → SharePoint meeting recap as a News post
Roadmap ID 498494 | Rollout start: September CY2025, Preview
Publish meeting recap notes and follow‑ups directly to SharePoint News, where Copilot can ground future answers. SharePoint News pages make it easy to distribute important updates broadly, ensuring that key information reaches everyone today, remains available tomorrow, and powers Copilot going forward.
Copilot Chat: Email attachment summarization
Roadmap ID 499657 | Rollout start: September CY2025, GA
Summarize modern and item attachments right inside Copilot Chat. If you’ve ever struggled with an email that’s both mini pages of prior threads, and a dozen attachments, this one is for you.
Voice chat in Microsoft 365 Copilot (mobile)
Rollout start: early July 2025; completing by early Sept 2025
Hands‑free Copilot for natural, interruptible conversations. We’ve had voice chat in the consumer product for a while, so I appreciate being able to use this with the intrinsic security and graph access of M365 Copilot.
Why it matters (business outcomes)
Looking ahead
Expect GPT‑5 to improve Copilot’s judgment about when to go deep versus stay fast — an important shift from ‘tool’ to ‘teammate.’
We’ll return next week with more case studies and hands‑on outcomes you can model. And in my “regular” #SoC LinkedIn posts, I’ll be sharing tips and tricks to help you maximize the value of your AI investments. (That might take more than a week too...)
Thanks again for your readership and engagement – please keep those comments and suggestions coming!
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