OpenAI models and Codex are coming to Google Cloud's Model Garden

OpenAI and Google Cloud say OpenAI's frontier models and Codex will be sold through Google Cloud's Model Garden, billed via Google Cloud Marketplace. Companies with Google Cloud spend commitments will be able to count these purchases against them. OpenAI says its models will also come soon to Google Antigravity and the Gemini Agent. General availability is planned in the coming weeks, with an access request form open now; OpenAI notes that Microsoft remains its primary cloud partner. On Hacker News (227 points, 98 comments, 13 top-level commenters when we checked), most comments were strategy talk, with no consensus. Some read it as Google losing faith in its own Gemini models and drifting towards being a pure cloud host. One commenter called letting customers draw down existing commitments a big concession by Google. Another said it simply matches Anthropic, which already sells through Google Cloud, AWS and Azure. The most-replied comment asked how OpenAI can trust Google not to copy its models, and one joked that the Gemini Agent needs a new name if it will run other companies' models. Sorted take: for buyers this is good news, with fewer contracts and more choice inside the cloud you already pay for. The details that matter, which models and at what price, are not out yet.