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

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Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:14:57 +0000

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Google wants its AI agents to outdo Claude Code and help coders and researchers work faster, according to a new leaked memo.

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Google s Gemini AI is pretty adept at this , but thats 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 cant afford to waste any time. Writing in a memo to the companys AI engineers and researchers, Brin said: To win the final sprint, we must urgently bridge the gap in agentic execution and turn our models into primary developers of final code. Article continues below You may like AMD AI head slams Anthropic's coding tool after months of frustration Anthropic claims half of its agent tool calls are to do with software engineering - so are developers letting AI take over? Anthropic reveals Claude Managed Agents, promises to make agent building '10x faster'

And this isnt just some hands-off effort from the Google executive team. Both Brin and Google DeepMind Chief Technology Officer Koray Kavukcuoglu have been directly involved with the strike team, showing its importance to Googles top leadership, The Information claims. That aptly illustrates how seriously the company appears to be taking the threat from Anthropic. Will it ever see the light of day? (Image credit: Shutterstock/ gguy) What is Google aiming for here? Well, the most obvious answer would be to maintain a competitive edge against a popular rival in an emerging field that stands to make dominant companies a whole boatload of cash.

But theres more to it than that. As The Information noted, The end goal is Al takeoff, or Al that can improve itself, which has been a particular focus for Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

Indeed, the report puts it this way: An advanced coding agent, combined with Al that can solve math problems and run experiments, could one day automate the work of Al researchers and engineers at a large scale. Thats something that another rival, OpenAI, has already developed for its own researchers working on internal AI projects, with the company also building a GitHub
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The priority appears to be to improve Geminis ability to work with Googles
own code. That would improve its performance when used by Googles engineers and researchers for their internal projects, with less of the emphasis being placed on coding tools for everyday coders who sit outside the organization. Given that an improved AI agent will have been trained on Googles code, it couldnt be released publicly.

So before you get your hopes up, you might not see the work of Geminis strike team, at least not initially. But as this report points out, the improved internal tools could theoretically help create better models that could then see a public release.

For now, all we can do is wait and see whether Google is able to close the
gap between its own AI agents and Anthropics Claude before the gulf becomes insurmountable. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button!

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