Artificial Intelligence
Google Cloud adds OpenAI models to its platform
Google Cloud said it had begun rolling out three OpenAI models in private preview, with marketplace billing, enterprise governance features and later availability across other Google products.
- Google Cloud said it had begun adding OpenAI models to its model garden.
- The models named were GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, and they were rolling out in private preview to selected enterprise customers.
- Google Cloud said the models would be sold through Google Cloud Marketplace and that usage would appear on one bill and count towards existing spending commitments and Flexible Savings Plans.
- The post said customers could connect local Codex CLI and Desktop workflows to the Gemini platform for inference.
- Yashodha Bhavnani of Box said the arrangement would combine access to OpenAI models with Google Cloud security and compliance capabilities.
Google Cloud said it had begun adding OpenAI models to its model garden. It named GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, and said they were rolling out in private preview for selected enterprise customers.
The post said customers would buy the models through Google Cloud Marketplace. It said usage would appear on a single Google Cloud bill, draw down existing commitments and count towards Flexible Savings Plans.
Google Cloud said customers would be able to connect local Codex CLI and Desktop workflows to its Gemini platform for inference. It also said the models would be available later in Gemini for business and Google Antigravity.
The post described controls for data handling, access boundaries and auditing, and said OpenAI workloads would run on dedicated Google Cloud infrastructure. It said Zero Data Retention and Confidential Compute were coming later.
Yashodha Bhavnani, vice president of AI Products at Box, said the setup would give customers access to OpenAI models alongside Google Cloud’s security and compliance features. She said it would help Box serve customers and work more efficiently.
Named in this story
People
- Michael Gerstenhaber
- Wrote the post as VP of Product Management for Gemini at Google Cloud
- Yashodha Bhavnani
- Box vice president of AI Products who was quoted in support of the launch
Companies
- Google Cloud
- Announced the addition of OpenAI models to its platform
- OpenAI
- Provided the models being added to Google Cloud
- Box
- Was cited as a customer interested in using the models
Products and systems
- GPT-6 Astra
- One of the OpenAI models rolling out on Google Cloud
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- One of the OpenAI models rolling out on Google Cloud
- GPT-6 Luna
- One of the OpenAI models rolling out on Google Cloud
- Google Cloud Marketplace
- The sales channel for the OpenAI models
- Gemini platform
- The Google Cloud platform the post said would host the workloads
- Codex CLI
- A local workflow customers could connect to the platform
- Gemini for business
- A later destination where the models were said to be coming
- Google Antigravity
- Another later destination where the models were said to be coming
How the source tells it
The piece was a promotional blog post with strong vendor boosterism and repeated reassurance about security, governance and choice.
- vendor boosterism self-comparison with rival clouds and repeated claims of category leadership
- reassurance promises about data perimeters, isolated access and audit controls
- novelty launch language paired with preview access and future availability