alt Hacker NewsYup, we are in the process of getting access to US hosted Chinese models. I've been petitioning Google and our rep, we will see but I suspect they will cave eventually. Gemini sucks and if they don't sell what their customers want, we go shopping around.
What you want is already available on OpenRouter and a million other services, but sure, you can wait 18 months for it to be on GCP.