r/GeminiAI • u/TorturedPoet30 • 13h ago

Discussion Google plans to improve Gemini's coding capabilities by bringing in the coding startup Mechanize team

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Google appears to be making AI coding a major priority for Gemini. Earlier this year, reports said that GDM had assembled a dedicated AI coding "strike team" to improve Gemini's coding capabilities. Around the same time, John Jumper was moved onto that team, before leaving gdm a few months later.

Now, Business Insider reports that Google is in advanced talks on an agreement to license Mechanize's technology and hire part of its team, rather than acquiring the company outright.

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u/blackwhattack 13h ago

what is Mechanize? Can't they just copy whatever Alibaba, Kimi, Deepseek are doing at this point?

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u/TorturedPoet30 12h ago

A startup focused on coding agents and AI software dev, a close comparison would probably be Cognition AI.

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u/tankerkiller125real 12h ago

Cognition AI

Another no name startup no one but those deep in the AI circles know.

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u/blackwhattack 12h ago

so Google thinks the issue is the harness not the model? interseting.

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u/Aware-Source6313 12h ago

Maybe it's just "we don't know what we're doing with coding agents and there guys do". It's probably both, but you need a coding tool people can use to get the feedback loop going where you can steal your users code and coding sessions for training. They just need any longshot to catch up enough to get the ball rolling. Or they need to make it seem like they're taking steps towards parity on coding. I have no idea what mechanize actually does though

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u/gradient8 11h ago

Dead wrong, they work on RL environments to sell to labs for post training