Overview
- OpenAI and Google announced Wednesday that the GPT‑6 suite and the Codex coding agent will be listed in Google Cloud’s Model Garden and transacted through the Google Cloud Marketplace.
- Availability will roll from private preview for select enterprise clients to wider general release in the coming weeks, with some GPT‑6 models already in limited enterprise preview.
- The deal puts OpenAI models on all three major U.S. clouds and reduces Azure’s earlier exclusivity edge while OpenAI says Microsoft remains its primary cloud partner.
- Google Cloud customers can buy OpenAI models against existing spend commitments and run them under Google’s access controls and data governance, with integration planned for Antigravity and the Gemini Agent to support agentic workflows.
- The move reflects a broader shift to cloud ‘model supermarkets’ where hyperscalers sell competing top models, which changes how enterprises choose AI by prioritizing billing, governance and integration and raises questions about regulation and supplier diversification.