# Google Cloud — Google Cloud expands model choice and flexibility, bringing OpenAI models to customers

- Company: Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-21T12:00:00+00:00
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: 1 outlet
- Announcement: yes
- Group: covered
- Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/google-cloud-brings-openai-models-to-customers/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/25912-google-cloud-expands-model-choice-and-flexibility-bringing-openai-models-to
- Subject: Gemini Enterprise
- Models affected: GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Luna

Google Cloud is adding OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models to its model garden, giving enterprise customers a choice of models on one platform. The company says it is now the only hyperscale cloud provider offering access to all three leading closed source LLMs, alongside more than 200 first-party, third-party and open models. Google describes Astra as built for demanding work across coding, computer use, professional tasks and scientific research, Sol as near-Astra intelligence at lower cost, and Luna as a fast, cost-efficient model for everyday work at scale. Because the OpenAI models are transacted through Google Cloud Marketplace, usage appears on a single Google Cloud invoice, draws down existing cloud commitments and counts toward Flexible Savings Plans across model providers. The three models are rolling out now in private preview to select enterprise customers, and customers can build with them through Google Cloud APIs and connect local Codex CLI and Desktop workflows to the Gemini platform for inference. Google says customer prompts, context and outputs stay within a designated data perimeter and are never used to train foundation models, with Zero Data Retention options coming soon, and that the models run on dedicated infrastructure with Confidential Compute also coming soon.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/google-cloud-brings-openai-models-to-customers/:

> OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna models are rolling out now in private preview to select enterprise customers in Google Cloud’s model garden, with more coming soon. Starting today, customers can build with these models through our APIs and connect their local Codex CLI and Desktop workflows directly to our Gemini platform for inference.

## Around this story

Outlets this record can name and link:

- Madrobot — Google will now sell OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to its cloud customers, right next to Gemini: https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/21/openai-gpt-6-astra-google-cloud-model-garden-codex-antigravity

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