Overview
- OpenAI and Google Cloud announced the agreement Wednesday, listing OpenAI’s frontier models and Codex workflows in Google Cloud’s Model Garden with general availability expected in the coming weeks.
- Select GPT‑6 models — Astra, GPT‑6.1 Sol and Luna — are rolling out in a private preview on Google Cloud for chosen enterprise customers and will expand to more users soon.
- Customers will purchase access through the Google Cloud Marketplace and charge usage to their existing cloud spending commitments with a single Google Cloud invoice.
- Google Cloud says prompts, context and outputs will stay inside customer data boundaries and that the integration pairs OpenAI models with Google’s access controls, centralized governance and Confidential Compute options.
- The move completes OpenAI’s presence across the three major U.S. clouds and shows hyperscalers serving as neutral model marketplaces that host competitors, take a share of sales, and compete on billing and enterprise controls while Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner.