‘We must urgently bridge the gap’: Google’s Sergey Brin says Gemini is behind Claude in one important AI field, according to leaked memo

• Google is reportedly creating an AI ‘strike team’ to challenge Claude Code
• The company wants to build AI agents that can assist coding and research
• Yet the result might never be released to the public

One of the most significant ways that AI is changing the world is through the rise of AI agents that can write code. Instead of spending hours crafting and debugging code, programmers are now able to simply ask an AI model to get to work for them.

Google’s Gemini AI is pretty adept at this, but that’s not good enough for the company, which has reportedly been so rattled by the progress of rival Anthropic and its Claude Code AI agent that Google has formed a “strike team” to address the problem.

Indeed, according to a report from The Information, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned that Google can’t ...