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Oracle opens the lightning drawer: Gemini and GPT-5 enter the scene
From cloud to enterprise applications, Oracle customers will be able to harness the power of Google and OpenAI models for coding, intelligent agents and multimodal workflows, with security and scalability taking center stage
Editorial Team28 August 2025
In August 2025, Oracle expanded its AI capabilities by offering Google Gemini models via OCI Generative AI and integrating OpenAI’s GPT-5 into its database and SaaS platforms, expanding its AI offering to enterprise customers with agentic and multimodal technologies.
Key points:
- Expanded partnership with Google Cloud to offer Gemini 2.5 and future full range on OCI via Vertex AI.
- Access to multimodal models (text, images, video, audio, music, vertical domains such as MedLM).
- Deployment of GPT-5 in Oracle Database, Fusion Cloud, NetSuite, and vertical applications such as Oracle Health.
- GPT-5 optimized for coding, sophisticated reasoning, agentic automation, across various API dimensions and ChatGPT Enterprise.
In the enterprise AI arena, August was an unexpectedly busy month for Oracle: on the one hand, it made Google’s powerful Gemini models available to its customers, starting with Gemini 2.5 and soon promising the entire family, including models for video, images, voice, music, and specialized domains like MedLM, integrated into the OCI Generative AI service thanks to its partnership with Vertex AI. On the other hand, it deployed OpenAI’s GPT-5 within its database and SaaS portfolio, enabling advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities directly in the most critical enterprise workflows.
The agreement with Google Cloud, made official on August 14, 2025, allows Oracle users to build multimodal AI agents for tasks ranging from complex comprehension to advanced coding, information search, workflow automation, and productivity—all accessible through OCI, leveraging existing Oracle Universal Credits. The integration will expand to include, in addition to Gemini 2.5, models for creating audio, video, and images, as well as industry-specific tools such as MedLM. All of these will be accessible via Vertex AI within Fusion Cloud applications (finance, HR, supply chain, sales, etc.).
At the same time, on August 18, it was announced that Oracle has integrated GPT-5—defined by OpenAI as its smartest, fastest, and most useful model—into its databases and application suites (Fusion Cloud, NetSuite, Oracle Health). This enables a native blend of trusted enterprise data and cutting-edge AI, with capabilities for code generation, editing, and debugging, complex reasoning, and sophisticated agentic.
Technologies such as Oracle Database 23ai, AI Vector, Select AI, and SQLcl MCP Server allow GPT-5 to securely access and query database data, improving search, analysis, and AI process execution directly from SQL. The model is available in three sizes via API and ChatGPT Enterprise, designed to meet different scalability and performance needs.
This dual announcement underscores Oracle’s strategy of offering a diverse selection of AI models, from proprietary to third-party, multimodal ones, tightly integrating them with existing infrastructure, data, and applications, focusing on security, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. This move is consistent with Oracle’s commitment to positioning itself as a "Swiss" AI platform, capable of aggregating best-in-class technologies online.
The breadth of Oracle’s AI offering takes shape as a mosaic of choice and integration, capable of enabling complex contexts with intelligent and flexible tools.