{"slug": "google-cloud-expands-model-choice-and-flexibility-bringing-openai-models-to", "title": "Google Cloud expands model choice and flexibility, bringing OpenAI models to customers", "summary": "Google Cloud launched OpenAI models — GPT-Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna — in its model garden in private preview for select enterprise customers, making Google Cloud the only hyperscale cloud provider offering access to all three leading closed-source LLMs alongside more than 200 first-party, third-party, and open models. OpenAI model usage is transacted directly through Google Cloud Marketplace, appearing on a single Google Cloud invoice, drawing down existing cloud commitments, and counting toward Flexible Savings Plans across model providers. Customers can build with the models through Google Cloud APIs and connect local Codex CLI and Desktop workflows to the Gemini platform for inference, with availability in Gemini for business and Google Antigravity coming soon.", "body_md": "Google Cloud has always been defined by choice, enterprise-grade governance, and market-leading price-performance. Key to the foundation of openness and choice is giving customers flexibility to run agentic workloads across their choice of models and infrastructure to achieve the right balance of cost, capability, and performance. Today, we are expanding that foundation by launching OpenAI models in Google Cloud’s model garden.\n\nGoogle Cloud is now the only hyperscale cloud provider offering access to all three leading closed source LLMs, alongside more than 200 first-party, third-party, and open models on a unified enterprise AI platform.\n\nModern enterprise AI requires matching each workload to the right model rather than relying on a single model for every task. By adding OpenAI’s newest models to model garden, we are giving teams options across the full spectrum of enterprise workloads. For OpenAI models:\n\nUsing the platform, customers can dynamically select and swap the optimal model for any use case based on performance, latency, and cost efficiency without architectural lock-in or separate vendor contracts. Developers gain the freedom to build with hundreds of choices in model garden. Because OpenAI models are transacted directly through Google Cloud Marketplace, all usage appears on a single Google Cloud invoice, draws down existing cloud commitments, and counts toward [Flexible Savings Plans (FSP)](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/flexible-billing-and-cost-controls-for-agents-on-google-cloud?e=48754805) across model providers.\n\nScaling generative AI should never require compromising on compliance or security. Built from the ground up for enterprise governance, the [Gemini platform](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/welcome-to-gemini-at-work-2026?e=48754805) is trusted by leading global organizations today. We ensure that running any third-party or OpenAI workload meets the most rigorous enterprise standards:\n\nOpenAI’s GPT-Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna models are rolling out now in private preview to select enterprise customers in Google Cloud’s model garden, with more coming soon. Starting today, customers can build with these models through our APIs and connect their local Codex CLI and Desktop workflows directly to our Gemini platform for inference. Please use [this form](https://cloud.google.com/resources/interest/openai-models) to express interest.\n\nComing soon, OpenAI models will be available in Google Cloud’s Gemini for business and Google Antigravity, providing enterprise customers and developers with model choice flexibility and the best model for each task.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-cloud-expands-model-choice-and-flexibility-bringing-openai-models-to", "canonical_source": "https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/google-cloud-brings-openai-models-to-customers/", "published_at": "2026-10-21 12:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-21 12:10:24.125020+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Google Cloud", "OpenAI", "GPT-Astra", "GPT-6.1 Sol", "GPT-6 Luna", "Google Cloud Marketplace", "Codex CLI", "Google Antigravity"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-cloud-expands-model-choice-and-flexibility-bringing-openai-models-to", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-cloud-expands-model-choice-and-flexibility-bringing-openai-models-to.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-cloud-expands-model-choice-and-flexibility-bringing-openai-models-to.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-cloud-expands-model-choice-and-flexibility-bringing-openai-models-to.jsonld"}}