Google cofounder Sergey Brin has personally assembled a dedicated team within Google DeepMind with the goal of closing the widening performance gap with Anthropic's Claude on AI coding tasks, according to a report by The Information published April 20. The team is led by Sebastian Borgeaud, who previously ran Gemini pretraining, and involves DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu; Brin's memo to staff calls for urgently bridging the gap in "agentic execution" to turn Gemini into a "primary developer." The competitive context is stark: Google's own CFO has said AI writes roughly 50% of Google's code, while Anthropic has stated it writes nearly 100% of its code with AI. The team's strategy includes training on Google's massive internal codebase to target long-horizon engineering tasks that can take hours to complete.