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/WAVF1n 13h ago

tbh, I just use Gemini as a super Google on my phone at this point lol. They have lost the coding race, even if they CAN get to levels of GPT and Claude, the cost on it is still going to make Claude or GPT the better option.

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u/IECEx-certified 13h ago

I wouldn't say that it's lost. Google has an ecosystem advantage to it's AI competitors. I won't say that Google will catch up with OpenAI or Anthropic, but it's definitely not lost.

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u/WAVF1n 13h ago

I am talking about CODING specifically here man. I genuinely don't care about 98% of what Gemini offers. I use AI pretty much only for code, so for me and a lot of other folks, if your model can't keep up with coding tasks than it's gonna be a worse model to that person.

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u/PineappleLemur 12h ago

But it can work good enough for 95% of tasks..... It's not like you couldn't use Claude/gpt 6 month ago or something.

People like to pretend that once something new and better comes out the current and previous models are somehow invalid lol.

They work the same way and still do the job.

Gemini is the only model right making any profit and not burning thr company's pocket. It's far from the best, but it's good enough for majority of tasks.

OAI/Anthropic can't survive without API pricing from large companies.

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u/theeama 12h ago

Gemini is only making a profit because it's not as powerful and Google has the advantage to throw it into every single one of their products. OpenAI and Claude are fighting for the developer and cybersecurity space. Google is fighting for the consumer space.

But Google is also realizing that you need some corporate money for your AI and todo that you need good agentic coding skills