OpenAI Models and Codex Are Coming to Google Cloud

A rival lab's AI tools will soon run inside Google's enterprise platform — a notable act of coopetition at the infrastructure layer.

OpenAI models and Codex are coming to Google Cloud, placing a direct competitor's AI tools inside Google's own enterprise platform, as reported by @GatewayzAI. On its face it is a contradiction: Google topped the intelligence leaderboard this week with Gemini 4 Carbon, and now it is set to host the models of the lab it just beat. In practice it is a coherent strategy.

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