OpenAI’s biggest competitor just became one of its distributors. Google Cloud announced on October 21 that GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna — plus OpenAI’s Codex agentic coding workflows — are coming to Google Cloud’s Model Garden. For developers already building on GCP, this removes the last practical reason to maintain a separate Azure account just to access OpenAI’s frontier models. Three Models, One Catalog Google Cloud is adding three GPT-6 series models to Model Garden, the same catalog that already houses Gemini, Claude, Llama, and Mistral. Each covers a different price-performance tier: GPT-6 Astra — the high-performance option, […]
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