Google DeepMind Forms 'Strike Team' to Catch Anthropic in Coding AI — Sergey Brin Tells Staff to 'Aggressively Pivot'

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The Information reports Google DeepMind assembled a dedicated strike team led by pretraining researcher Sebastian Borgeaud, with both co-founder Sergey Brin and CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu directly involved. Google's own CFO admitted Anthropic writes close to 100% of its code with AI assistance while Google sits at roughly 50% — despite Google having the world's largest internal codebase at over 2 billion lines of code. Brin is pushing staff to aggressively pivot toward agentic systems capable of handling full software builds.