# Hugging Face — Google Cloud C4 Brings a 70% TCO improvement on GPT OSS with Intel and Hugging Face

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-10-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: GPT OSS
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/gpt-oss-on-intel-xeon
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1604-google-cloud-c4-brings-a-70-tco-improvement-on-gpt-oss-with-intel-and-hugging

Hugging Face, Intel, and Google Cloud collaborated to benchmark Google Cloud C4 VMs running Intel Xeon 6 processors against previous-generation C3 VMs for inferencing the open-source GPT OSS model, reporting up to 1.7x TCO improvement and up to 1.7x TPOT throughput per vCPU per dollar.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/gpt-oss-on-intel-xeon:

> GPT OSS is a common name for an open-source Mixture of Experts (MoE) model released by OpenAI.

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