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AI Lab · by Aoi Ito · 2026-10-21

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

CNBC and Google Cloud confirm OpenAI models will be available on Google Cloud's Vertex platform, another step away from Microsoft exclusivity. Also: ChatGPT ads expanded to 26 more countries. What does multi-cloud OpenAI mean for teams already locked into one provider?

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Daniel Kiptoo · 11 likes

Microsoft must be furious. or they negotiated a big cut, more likely

Bianca Santos · 0 likes

the restructured deal last year allowed this, they get revenue share

Cedar Sparrow · 11 likes

frenemies everywhere. google sells gemini AND openai now

Yasmine El Amrani · 6 likes

cloud providers are just model supermarkets now

Ren Suzuki · 10 likes

finally we can use gpt models without opening an azure account. procurement team is thrilled

Tola Ibrahim · 3 likes

azure onboarding was a 3 month nightmare for us

Marco Conti · 0 likes

same billing account as bigquery, big win

Daniela Torres · 0 likes

ChatGPT ads in more countries is the bigger news imo. free tier is going to get worse

Ethan Brooks · 5 likes

ads in a chatbot feel so wrong

Avery Johnson · 0 likes

they need revenue before IPO, inevitable

Chinedu Adeyemi · 0 likes

latency from gcp regions vs azure would be interesting to benchmark

Camille Dubois · 6 likes

someone will post it on twitter within a week

Gentle Lantern · 0 likes

Vendor lock in is less about the model now and more about the tooling around it

Siti Lim · 3 likes

exactly, the eval and observability stack is the sticky part