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OpenAI Brings Three Models and Codex to Google Cloud
OpenAI and Google Cloud are putting GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Luna and Codex workflows on Google Cloud’s Model Garden. Select enterprise customers can try the models in an invite-only preview, with general availability planned in the
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Three models enter Google Cloud’s preview
GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out in private preview to select enterprise customers on Google Cloud, putting three of OpenAI’s frontier models inside Google’s Model Garden. The October 21 announcement also brings Codex workflows to the platform, giving developers another way to use OpenAI tools within their existing cloud setup. Google Cloud says general availability is planned in the coming weeks.
The arrangement is built around enterprise purchasing as much as model access. Customers will be able to buy OpenAI models through Google Cloud Marketplace, and OpenAI says companies can apply existing Google Cloud spending commitments to those purchases. Google says usage will appear on a single cloud invoice and count toward its Flexible Savings Plans.
Codex connects through local tools
Google says customers in the preview can build with the models through APIs and connect local Codex CLI and desktop workflows to Google’s Gemini platform for inference. OpenAI’s access form describes the preview as invite-only and lists model access through the Responses API, alongside Codex through its app, command-line interface and supported development environments. The form specifies that preview use is for approved development and internal testing, not production.
That scope makes the launch an evaluation route for selected customers, not a general release for every Google Cloud account. OpenAI says its models will also come to Google Antigravity and the Gemini Agent, while Google says availability in Gemini for business and Antigravity is coming. Neither company announced prices for using the models through Google Cloud.
OpenAI calls it a distribution choice
For OpenAI, the deal places its models and coding tools where some enterprise customers already buy cloud services and run workloads. “This partnership is an important step in making our most capable models and Codex available where customers are already building,” OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman said in the announcement. OpenAI also states that Microsoft remains its primary cloud partner.
Google presents the addition as a way for customers to choose among models for different jobs. Its product-management vice president Michael Gerstenhaber says the platform includes more than 200 first-party, third-party and open models; Google describes itself as the only hyperscale cloud provider offering access to all three leading closed-source large language models. That comparison is Google’s characterization of its own platform.
Security terms and rollout limits
Google says customer prompts, context and outputs remain within a designated data perimeter and are not used to train foundation models. It also says OpenAI models run on dedicated Google Cloud infrastructure and that interactions receive identity controls and unified audit logging. Zero Data Retention options and Confidential Compute are listed as coming soon, so neither is described as available in this preview.
The concrete next steps are limited: selected enterprise customers can request an invitation, while broader availability is still planned rather than dated. The companies have not published Google Cloud pricing or said when the preview will open to more customers. Those details will determine how the new channel compares with using OpenAI through its own services or another cloud provider.