谷歌重组AI编程团队，追赶Anthropic

Google is reorganizing its AI coding strike team as it tries to close the gap with Anthropic in one of the most lucrative parts of the AI market.

According to The Information, the months-old team is being expanded into a more formal "midtraining" group, sitting between pretraining and post-training. The goal is to improve Gemini’s coding abilities and extend those capabilities into broader business tasks like creating presentations.

The move comes after two major departures: Noam Shazeer reportedly left for OpenAI after changes to his compute access, while Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is heading to Anthropic after recently being moved to the coding strike team.

That is the uncomfortable part for Google.

It has world-class researchers, TPUs, Gemini, Cloud, Search, YouTube, and enormous distribution. But coding has become the clearest monetization layer in AI, and Anthropic has turned that advantage into massive revenue momentum.

Google now seems to be admitting that strong base models alone are not enough. Coding needs specialized training, dedicated compute, and a much sharper product loop.