Google Creates Strike Team to Improve Coding Models

Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation, as it looks to automate more of its own coding and ultimately its AI research. The push was prompted in part by Anthropic’s recent AI model releases, according to two of the people. Researchers at Google DeepMind view Anthropic’s coding tools as exceeding the code-writing abilities of Google’s Gemini models, the people said.