Google Antigravity: Hands on with our new agentic development platform

Explore Antigravity, Google DeepMind’s innovative new AI developer coding product, with Varun Mohan on Release Notes. This episode dives into Antigravity as a powerful agent development platform, integrating a familiar IDE experience with browser verification and Gemini 3.0 capabilities. Discover how developers can orchestrate complex agentic workflows, leverage artifacts for task communication, and balance AI automation with human collaboration. Learn about the philosophy behind building next-gen agentic experiences, the platform's multimodal strengths, and its role in accelerating software development at scale.

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Chapters
00:00 - Introducing Google Antigravity
04:02 - Evolution of AI in coding
04:53 - Beyond writing code
06:21 - Ideal Google Antigravity user
09:48 - Evolving user personas
11:46 - Agents versus the IDE
14:46 - Human-agent collaboration
16:43 - Local versus server-side
18:50 - Self-improvement and knowledge
21:29 - Generalizing agent capabilities
24:20 - Naming Google Antigravity
27:04 - Integrating Google's AI models
27:59 - Demo: Airbnb for dogs
28:48 - Understanding artifacts
29:51 - Asynchronous user feedback
32:16 - Agent manager workflow
33:17 - Browser actuation demo
34:36 - Browser for research and testing
36:45 - Parallel agent conversations
41:04 - Agent task best practices
42:51 - Future of Google Antigravity