# Google Makes Its AI Coding Team Permanent and Pushes Into Midtraining

DeepMind is broadening a months-old coding effort to work between pretraining and post-training as it tries to match Anthropic in coding.

- Published: 2026-06-29T10:45:14.906Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-06-29/google-makes-its-ai-coding-team-permanent-and-pushes-into-mi
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [Neowin](https://www.neowin.net/news/google-reshuffles-its-ai-coding-team-as-it-struggles-to-catch-anthropic/)

Google is turning the AI coding "strike team" it created about two months ago into a permanent structure and expanding its remit beyond coding tools and agents into midtraining, the stage that sits after a model's broad initial pretraining…

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