Google has joined the race to build an IDE (integrated development environment) for developers, with its introduction of Antigravity.
The launch was announced alongside the release of Google Deepmind's latest model, Gemini 3.0.
Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, among the first such products to be released to the public, currently dominates the market for Enterprises.
Cursor IDE, from the namesake startup, has found favor with startups and independent engineers (including this writer), alongside Claude Code.
OpenAI is also competing in the market with its Codex IDE.
Google also has an end-to-end coding agent called "Jules." Such agents are great for testing and identifying bugs, but take over too much control perhaps, for a day-to-day workflow of a developer.
The Antigravity IDE comes with Gemini 3.0 Pro in High and Low versions, alongside Anthropic's Claude 4.5 Sonnet (with Thinking varient) and OpenAI's open-source model the GPT-OSS.
Google asks off the bat whether you plan to use the IDE primarily for "vibe coding," "assisted coding" or primarily for review purposes.
This is interesting to me because successful execution here could target a range of products starting from "no-code tools" like Lovable and Replit, all the way to the more advanced products catering to devs mentioned earlier.
Simon Wilson flagged potential vulnerabilties where Antigravity could be exposed to trifecta exfiltration attack via prompt injection, so be careful about exposing API keys or other sensitive data to the IDE, if you plan to test it alongside me.
This sounds bad: @antigravity is vulnerable to the classic lethal trifecta exfiltration attack where a prompt injection can cause the agent to construct a URL to an external server controlled by the attacker and then invisibly leak stolen data to it by rendering a Markdown image https://t.co/gZ8HfECZO5
— Simon Willison (@simonw) November 20, 2025
It is anyway recommended to wait a while with doing anything production-level with early-stage products. With requirement for pace in AI right now, even "slow-moving" giants like Google aren't exception to shipping with vulnerabilities.