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.

MF● Healthy GPT Image 2.5 Flare 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 → https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up