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OpenAI has expanded its ChatGPT advertising to additional countries and is making advanced AI models available through Google Cloud for enterprise customers. The company began testing ads on ChatGPT in the United States earlier this year, with over 100,000 advertisers running campaigns since then. The new markets for ChatGPT ads include Nigeria, South Africa, Serbia, Ukraine, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

Advertisers can access these ads through technology partners or a self-service option via OpenAI's Ads Manager platform, with limitations to Free and Go subscription plans.

In September, OpenAI introduced AI-powered tools to assist advertisers in managing their campaigns. Additionally, the company is collaborating with Google Cloud to offer its latest AI models, including GPT-6 Astra, to businesses through the Model Garden on Google Cloud. Customers can purchase these models through Google Cloud Marketplace and utilize their existing Google Cloud spending commitments for payment.

This partnership enables businesses in regulated industries, such as those with strict data handling rules, to access OpenAI's models through Google Cloud's security and data management systems. Both OpenAI and Google Cloud are among the major cloud providers that have begun offering OpenAI's models to their customers, following the end of OpenAI's exclusive distribution deal with Microsoft in April.

Google's move highlights the growing complexity of relationships between AI companies and cloud providers as the cost of developing and running advanced AI models increases.