Google DeepMind Forms Coding Strike Team Amid Competition
The effort focuses on improving performance in complex coding tasks as rivals advance AI software tools.
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Google DeepMind has formed a “coding strike team” of researchers and engineers to improve its artificial intelligence models for software development, The Information reported.
The team is being led by Sebastian Borgeaud, while senior leadership, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin and DeepMind Chief Technology Officer Koray Kavukcuoglu, is also involved, according to the report.
The group is focused on improving model performance in complex and long-running coding tasks, including the ability to process large codebases and interpret user intent. Some researchers internally view coding tools from Anthropic as outperforming Google’s Gemini models in certain areas, the report said.
Google is also increasing its use of internal code to train models aimed at software development. These models are not released publicly but are used to improve systems that can be deployed externally.
The development comes as companies expand the use of AI tools in software engineering. Anthropic has said its systems are widely used internally for coding, while Google has indicated that a significant share of its code is now generated with the help of AI.
Benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, which measure how well AI systems resolve real-world software issues, have shown stronger performance from Anthropic’s models in coding-related tasks.
