Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis

Three-quarters of new code at Google is being generated by AI, the company said.
The number has been steadily increasing as the company pushes staff to adopt AI tools.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said a recent code migration was done six times faster thanks to AI agents.

Three-quarters of new code created inside Google is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, the company said Wednesday.

That number has been notching up in recent years. As of October 2024, around a quarter of the company's code was AI-generated, Google said at the time. Last fall, it said the number had risen to 50%.

The company has been pushing employees to use AI both for coding and other tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on Wednesday that the company was shifting to "truly agentic workflows" with its engineers running more autonomous tasks

"Recently, a particularly complex code migration done by agents and engineers working together was completed six times faster than was possible a year ago with engineers alone," Pichai said.

Google's engineers are using its Gemini models for generating code, and some have been set specific AI goals that will be factored into performance reviews this year.

Some Google DeepMind employees have been permitted to use Anthropic's Claude Code in recent months, which has created some tensions between employees, Business Insider previously reported.

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