OpenAI brings its models and Codex to Google Cloud customers

OpenAI is putting its AI models and its Codex coding tools on Google Cloud. With that move, customers of all three major US cloud providers can now reach OpenAI’s technology from their existing platform. What OpenAI is offering on Google Cloud Google Cloud customers will get access to OpenAI’s frontier models and to Codex, the company’s coding tool. Developers inside the Google ecosystem no longer need a separate route to use OpenAI’s products. This rollout follows a similar one on Amazon’s side. OpenAI’s models became available through Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s managed AI service, on April 28, 2026. Microsoft Azure has long been OpenAI’s home base. With Google Cloud added, OpenAI now covers the full trio of dominant US cloud platforms. How a Microsoft-first company got here For years, OpenAI leaned heavily on an exclusive relationship with Microsoft for its cloud needs. Diversification became necessary as usage surged and OpenAI needed far more computing capacity than any single partner could easily supply. The Google relationship started on the infrastructure side. OpenAI finalized a deal to use Google Cloud infrastructure in May 2025, after getting past blockages tied to its Microso...