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Available today: GPT-5.5 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot

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NitinAgrawal
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May 07, 2026

Today, we're excited to announce the addition of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Building on GPT-5.3 Instant, GPT-5.5 Instant improves the quality of everyday work tasks designed to deliver more accurate and concise responses, with improved performance on image analysis and STEM-related tasks. 

With GPT-5.5 Instant, Microsoft 365 Copilot can provide clearer responses for everyday work, helping you get to a useful answer more quickly in many everyday workflows, with less back-and-forth. It improves how Copilot handles common work questions, image uploads, and STEM-related tasks, while reducing verbosity and unnecessary follow-up questions. Together, these improvements make Copilot responses easier to use right away across the flow of work. 

We are committed to bringing you the latest AI innovation and model choice tuned for work and tailored to your business needs—built on Microsoft's enterprise-grade security, compliance, and privacy commitments. Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users will receive priority access to GPT-5.5 Instant, while users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license will have standard access. Learn more about standard versus priority access here.

Get started today

GPT-5.5 Instant begins rolling out today to Copilot Chat experiences for quick responses, available to Microsoft 365 Copilot users with priority access and to Copilot Chat users with standard access. In Copilot Chat, GPT-5.5 Instant appears as GPT-5.5 Quick response in the model selector under GPT.

For agent makers, GPT-5.5 Instant is rolling out in Copilot Studio in early release cycle environments as GPT-5.5 Chat, and is also available in Microsoft Foundry for developers building AI solutions.

Our team will continue to refine the experience based on your feedback as we build the future of work together. Learn more about GPT-5.5 Instant from OpenAI here.

Updated May 07, 2026
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10 Comments

  • Hi NitinAgrawal​ ,
    why are the explicit GPT-5.5 options no longer available in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat? I now only see Auto, Quick response, and Think deeper.

    Could you clarify whether GPT-5.5 was removed, temporarily hidden, or is now used behind these modes?

    thanks

  • Thiago-de-Paulo's avatar
    Thiago-de-Paulo
    Copper Contributor

    Boa tarde, hoje os modelos de linguagem GPT-5.5 foram removidos do meu microsoft copilot chat, aconteceu com o de mais alguém? 

  • andyln33's avatar
    andyln33
    Tin Contributor

    Can we please keep the model names consistent across ecosystems? Why do we have to rename GPT 5.5 Instant to GPT 5.5 "Quick Response"? This just makes it confusing for end users.

  • Suhext's avatar
    Suhext
    Copper Contributor

    This is very exciting! Can I assume we do not need to do anything to access 5.5. i.e. it will automatically be added if we have a premium account?