AI-assisted coding has become one of the most competitive areas. Anthropic has been focusing heavily on this segment with its tool Claude Code. The company has even said that most of its code is now written with the help of AI.

However, according to Google’s CFO Anat Ashkenazi, AI currently writes around half of the company’s code. The new strike team is expected to help improve that number while strengthening Google’s AI coding capabilities overall. Also read: OpenAI releases Chronicle in Codex: What is it and how to use The strike team is led by Sebastian Borgeaud, who previously worked as the pre-training lead for Gemini at Google DeepMind.

The group is expected to focus on building AI systems that can handle complex, long-term coding tasks. Also read: ‘Legend’: Sam Altman and other leaders react as Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO Senior leadership is also said to be closely involved in the initiative, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin and DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu. Google is also reportedly focusing on using AI internally.

Until now, many of the company’s AI models have primarily been designed for external developers and customers. Google is even tracking how often employees use these AI coding tools through an internal leaderboard. For those unaware, Claude Code is an AI-powered coding assistant by Anthropic that can read, modify and execute code on your computer via natural language commands.

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