GCP has been hosting Anthropic models for a while.
Google owns Anthropic stock.
Why would it? The point of Gemini is provide user facing services cheaper than if they were paying OpenAI, make some money on the side with API credits and position themselves as a leader when investors want to see AI everywhere.
Google Cloud is competing with AWS. Amazon has Bedrock so Google needs to keep up with them by serving both Claude and GPT, along with Gemini and open models.
No? Why would you think that’s the case? Gemini fills its own niche
Gemini and GPT fill the same niche. They are direct competitors.
They overlap but are positioned differently, Gemini fills a different niche. In any case it would be a pretty dumb idea to ditch your own models, optimized for your own hardware, just because you’re also offering a competitor. Google can learn usage patterns for GPT models while continuing to work on their own models. No reasons to believe they will just stop developing Gemini