Google is worried it's falling behind in the AI coding assistant race, and it's trying to clean up its own mess. According to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter, the company is moving to consolidate its scattered internal coding products onto a single platform called Antigravity.
Chief AI architect Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead the integration effort over the coming weeks, working with the main engineering team. Antigravity is the AI coding platform Google launched last year after its $2.4 billion acquisition of Windsurf's talent and tech. Right now, the company's public-facing coding tools are a confusing sprawl across Gemini Code Assist, Gemini CLI, AI Studio, Firebase Studio, and Jules—each with different branding and overlapping purposes.
Separately, DeepMind is also throwing resources at the problem. It has formed a dedicated team focused on AI coding, led by research engineer Sebastian Borgeaud. The team also includes 2024 Nobel laureate John Jumper, who is contributing to the research direction.
Multiple current and former employees say some Google engineers actually prefer using Anthropic's Claude Code. For security reasons, Google prohibits most employees from using Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex, requiring a business justification for an exception. But several teams within DeepMind—those responsible for the Gemini model, internal applications, and open-source models—are already using Claude Code.
The push comes as Google loses key talent. This month, former Jules lead Kathy Korevec left to join OpenAI. On X, she wrote that Google's problem is "parallel tools, overlapping interfaces," calling it a "systemic problem, not a talent problem." Brian Saluzzo, the executive who was driving internal AI coding adoption at Google, has also departed.