Google launched Antigravity on Wednesday with an edge independent AI Integrated Development Environments (IDE) cannot match (yet). It’s free, powered by Gemini 3 Pro—the top-ranked model on the LMArena leaderboard—and built by the same company that controls the model.
That combination puts tools like Cursor and Windsurf at a disadvantage. They have been renting intelligence since the ‘AI coding era’ from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google while competing against platforms those companies are now building themselves.
Antigravity, by contrast, lets developers manage AI agents that write code, and early tests show Gemini 3 can handle complex workflows—though the platform still needs a bit of hand-holding to run fully autonomously.
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Last updated: November 22, 2025
