OpenAI models on Google Cloud are coming to Model Garden
OpenAI models on Google Cloud and ChatGPT Work at Uber, and The Deploy Log for this week. Every price and claim read off the publisher's own page, with a call on each.
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OpenAI models on Google Cloud
WATCHif you run regulated workloads on Google Cloud
WHAT SHIPPEDOpenAI frontier models and Codex agentic workflows are coming to Google Cloud's Model Garden, purchasable through the Google Cloud Marketplace, with enterprises able to draw down GCP spend commitments for these purchases.
THE CATCHGeneral availability is planned in the coming weeks, so nothing is purchasable today; the page also says OpenAI models will soon be available in Google Antigravity and the Gemini Agent, but gives no date for either.
IF YOU RUNa Google Cloud environment with existing spend commitments and want OpenAI models without leaving that platform
SOURCEOpenAI, OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud
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ChatGPT Work at Uber
DEPLOYif you run a large knowledge workforce
WHAT SHIPPEDUber announced the company-wide rollout of ChatGPT Work starting today, making it available to more than 30,000 employees across Uber's global workforce, expanding from an initial pilot of 1,000 employees.
THE CATCHThe rollout is Uber's first company-wide deployment of an agentic platform for knowledge work, and GPT-6.1 Sol is the default model, but the page gives no completion date or measured outcomes yet.
IF YOU RUNa company with thousands of employees using Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Slack
SOURCEOpenAI, Uber brings ChatGPT Work to all employees with OpenAI
The Deploy Log
Models and APIs
| DEPLOYif you run contact centers or voice agents Amazon Polly Generative engine. The Amazon Polly Generative engine upgrade adds 14 new voices across 9 locales, including general availability of Hindi and Finnish for the first time, and is a drop-in upgrade with unchanged voice names and API calls. Amazon Web Services |
Tools and products
| DEPLOYif you run multilingual meetings Google Meet speech translation. Gemini-powered speech translation in Google Meet now supports 63 languages across web and mobile devices with automatic spoken language detection, individual participant controls, and synchronized translated captions, with listening support on Google Meet hardware devices. Google Workspace |
| DEPLOYif you advertise to consumers ChatGPT Ads. ChatGPT Ads expands to 26 additional countries, extending availability to 89 countries worldwide, with over 100,000 advertisers having run campaigns since launch just over eight months ago. OpenAI |
| DEPLOYif you run local vision-language models NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B. Ollama v0.40.10 adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B, a Gemma 4-based vision-language model with a 128K-token context window and a DFlash draft for speculative decoding, runnable with ollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:e4b. Ollama |
| DEPLOYif you run Ollama on Apple Silicon Ollama speech and d3. Ollama v0.40.9 adds speech generation with Phonon on Apple Silicon, streams audio through the OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech endpoint, and brings vLLM Semantic Router's d3 decision models in 2B, 4B, 9B, and 27B sizes. Ollama |
| WATCHif you administer Copilot Business or Enterprise Copilot global default policy. GitHub is gradually rolling out enforcement of a global default policy for generally available Copilot features through October 26, setting eligible unconfigured features to Enabled, Disabled, or Let organizations decide. GitHub |
| DEPLOYif you create tutorials in Google Vids Google Vids playback speed. Google Vids now lets you adjust the playback speed of individual video clips, speeding up footage to 2x or slowing it down to 0.25x. Google Workspace |
| DEPLOYif you build coding agents Kimi K3.1 Pro. Kimi K3.1 Pro from Moonshot AI is now available on AI Gateway along with Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, keeping the 1M-token context window and image input with improvements in coding, 3D modeling, financial analysis, and agentic tasks. Vercel |
| DEPLOYif you manage Vercel team budgets Vercel CLI spend management. You can now view and manage your team's Spend Management budget from the Vercel CLI with vercel budgets, including setting a budget with a --pause flag that pauses production deployments of all projects when spend reaches 100%. Vercel |
| DEPLOYif you build agents on Stripe Vercel Connect Stripe keys. Vercel Connect can now create a separate restricted Stripe API key for each agent or task, limited to the permissions you pick, with rotation from the connector's settings and the old key staying valid for up to 24 hours. Vercel |
| WATCHif you monitor Vercel build costs Vercel build cache size. Deployment summaries now show the size of the build cache each deployment saved and how close it is to the limit for its build machine, on by default on all plans for deployments built on or after October 21. Vercel |
Robotics, hardware and chips
| DEPLOYif you stream games on GeForce NOW Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 arrives on GeForce NOW at launch today, with GeForce RTX 5080-class performance for Ultimate members bringing ray-tracing support in the cloud. NVIDIA |
Left out
- iPhone Duo: edition 56 already carried it
- SageMaker AI training sessions: the publisher's page does not show it available yet
- Vercel free domain TLDs: it did not carry a number that moved
- Google Vault Gemini exports: it did not carry a number that moved
- Google Sheets box whisker charts: it did not carry a number that moved
- Google Vids audio extraction: it did not carry a number that moved
- Gemini Notebook Connected App: it did not carry a number that moved
- NVIDIA Cosmos Data Factory: it did not carry a number that moved
- NVIDIA Minerva: it did not carry a number that moved
- GitHub Copilot in Teams: it did not carry a number that moved
- Enterprise GitHub Apps: it did not carry a number that moved
The pattern
OpenAI is moving its models into Google Cloud's Model Garden while Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, and ChatGPT Ads passes 100,000 advertisers across 89 countries. The same week, Google Meet speech translation reaches 63 languages and Amazon Polly adds 14 voices across 9 locales, including Hindi and Finnish. These releases do not just add features; they push one vendor's models into another vendor's billing and identity system, put an agentic platform into a company-wide default, and extend ad inventory and speech coverage at the same time.
The smaller updates sharpen that direction. Ollama v0.40.10 adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B with a 128K-token context window, and v0.40.9 adds speech generation on Apple Silicon plus d3 decision models in 2B, 4B, 9B, and 27B sizes. Vercel ships Kimi K3.1 Pro with a 1M-token context window, CLI spend management with a --pause flag at 100%, per-task Stripe keys valid for up to 24 hours, and build cache size reporting from October 21. GitHub enforces a global default policy through October 26, and GeForce NOW launches Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 with RTX 5080-class performance. The pattern is distribution through existing platforms: OpenAI through Google Cloud Marketplace, NVIDIA models through Ollama, Moonshot AI through Vercel AI Gateway, and a game through cloud streaming.