According to the popular narrative right now, Google is behind when it comes to AI models. In the popular imagination, it finished at the top of the pile last year, and then got steamrolled by “agents” when platforms like OpenClaw made token-guzzling agentic coding into the AI trend of 2026. So if you’ve been waiting for Google DeepMind to pivot to coding, like OpenAI did in March, that’s now on the verge of happening, according to an anonymously-sourced s