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New model: GPT Image 2.5 Flare (Microsoft)

Microsoft released GPT Image 2.5 Flare on 2026-09-08, a text-and-image model listed under the identifier gpt-image-2.5-flare with no announced retirement date. The model is tracked by the provider-announcement listing on models.dev and by the llmstatus.ai tool, which flags models on a clock.

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New model: GPT Image 2.5 Flare (Microsoft)
Image: Llmstatus (auto-discovered)

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Microsoft · gpt-image-2.5-flare

Released2026-09-08

Retiresno announced date

gpt-imagetext+image

also matches:

`gpt-image-2.5-flare`` microsoft/gpt-image-2.5-flare`
[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/azure/gpt-image-2.5-flare)

Does your code call GPT Image 2.5 Flare?

$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash

Then mm status in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.

Get alerted before it retires →

source & further reading
llmstatus.ai — original article New model: GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI) Claude Sonnet 4 (APAC) deprecated New model: GPT-6 Astra (US) (Amazon)
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