Artificial Intelligence
Google Cloud adds OpenAI models alongside Gemini and Claude
Google Cloud said it had begun offering three OpenAI models in private preview to selected enterprise customers, with billing through existing contracts and the same models also due to appear in two Google products.
- Google Cloud said it was the only major cloud provider offering Gemini, Claude and OpenAI models on one platform.
- It made GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna available from that day as a private preview for selected enterprise customers.
- The models were also due to appear in Gemini for Business and Google Antigravity.
- Google said charges would run through one Google Cloud bill and that customer data would not be used for training.
Google Cloud said it had become the only major cloud provider offering Gemini, Claude and OpenAI models on one platform. It said GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna were available from that day in a private preview for selected enterprise customers.
The company said sign-ups were open, and that the same models would also appear in Gemini for Business and Google Antigravity. It said the charges would go through one Google Cloud bill and count against existing contracts.
Google said customer data would not be used for training. The article said the move highlighted a recurring tension inside Google between cloud capacity and the Gemini team.
It added that the conflict had reportedly pushed Noam Shazeer back to OpenAI.
Named in this story
People
- Noam Shazeer
- the researcher cited as having been pushed back to OpenAI
Companies
- OpenAI
- the model provider whose models were added
- the company whose Gemini team was described as competing for compute capacity
Products and systems
- Google Cloud
- the platform that began offering OpenAI models
- Gemini
- one of the model families available on the platform
- Claude
- one of the model families available on the platform
- GPT-6 Astra
- an OpenAI model offered in private preview
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- an OpenAI model offered in private preview
- GPT-6 Luna
- an OpenAI model offered in private preview
- Gemini for Business
- a Google product that would also carry the models
- Google Antigravity
- a Google product that would also carry the models
How the source tells it
The article is mostly a product-launch note, but it adds boosterish framing around Google Cloud's breadth and a speculative aside about internal competition at Google.
- hype a superlative claim presents Google Cloud as the only major provider with all three model families
- vendor boosterism the model descriptions promote task fit, cost and speed without any independent evidence
- speculation presented as fact a reported causal link is stated between cloud resource conflict and Noam Shazeer's move back to OpenAI