Sundar Pichai on Google’s answer to Anthropic and OpenAI’s AI coding agents: I think coding ends up being very …

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has openly admitted that the tech giant is currently trailing behind its rivals when it comes to the highly competitive frontier of AI-powered coding agents. In an interview published in The New York Times, Pichai addressed whether Google is lagging behind the leading edge in automated programming. While defending Google’s broader AI capabilities, he acknowledged that competitors like Anthropic have captured a lead in helping developers manage complex, long-running software tasks but emphasised that coding is fundamentally foundational to everything Google does.

He expressed strong confidence that internal usage data and new model iterations will quickly close the gap.