Google Adjusts Internal Policy to Allow All Engineers to Use Anthropic Claude

According to TechFlow, on September 15, Business Insider reported that Google has adjusted its internal policy to allow engineers across the company to access Anthropic's Claude models through its internal development platform Antigravity, including Anthropic Opus 5. Google stated that Gemini remains the primary foundational model for internal development, while third-party models such as Claude will be allocated according to user quotas and are primarily intended for specific scenarios as a supplement to Gemini.

Previously, access to Claude was primarily restricted to Google's DeepMind team and select employees working on high-priority projects. This expansion is believed to be driven by intensifying competition in AI programming tools. Reports indicate that despite the launch of Google's Flash 3.8 model, some employees consider its coding capabilities to still lag behind Anthropic and OpenAI. Meanwhile, Google had previously announced plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic.