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Has model selection been removed from Microsoft 365 Copilot?
Microsoft is definitely looking to minimize the interface and make it cleaner for the end users. Whether it's the right decision or not is up for debate.
Below is what I see in terms of model selection. Do you see something different?
Hi, I understand the concern. For business use, it is much easier to trust the output when you know what kind of model behavior you are getting.
From what I have seen, Microsoft 365 Copilot generally behaves more like a managed service with automatic routing than a plain model picker. Features such as "Think Deeper" or "Deep Analysis" may select a different reasoning path for that request, but that does not always mean the UI will keep showing a fixed model name afterward.
I would not rely on Reddit screenshots or model-name guesses for governance decisions. The best places to watch are Message Center, the Microsoft 365 roadmap, and official Copilot release notes. In the meantime, I would treat Copilot output as automatically routed and validate it based on task criticality, especially for legal, financial, security, or customer-facing work. A clear Microsoft statement on current model-selection behavior would definitely help admins set expectations.