The title is somewhat bait. It reads like MSFT is using less AI, while in fact it's just a force swap to Copilot.

Arguably, Copilot is GPT 5? Not sure what the CLI offers behind the covers.

golf1052 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Employees (at least on my team) get access to the Claude models as well when using Copilot CLI.

meowkit 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Copilot is the name for the harness / wrapper of MSFT products

The CLI can swap to whatever model (/models) based on your subscriptions.

The copilots on desktop or Office Apps are likely just GPT5 nano or other tiny models with cheap inference

I disagree. As someone who just got a new Windows laptop with Copilot baked(forced) in I've tested Copilot a lot.

It. is. so. bad.

It feels like it's at least 1-2 years behind the current top models.

	▲	alternatex 13 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Copilot cannot be behind any models because it's a harness, not a model. You can use any of the popular models through it, including Claude models. Though people have been saying that Claude CLI is a better experience.
	▲	keyle 43 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Your Copilot free offering isn't the Copilot they're using within the company for coding assistant. It's confusing I know.
	▲	gbro3n 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		But there isn't a copilot model is there? Just a harnesse, and the vscode copilot extension is pretty good (haven't tried the tui)
	▲	tored 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Copilot is not the same agent as GitHub Copilot.