Google DeepMind has launched a strike team. The mission: overhaul its AI coding models. Pressure mounts from Anthropic’s Claude. Sources say Google’s Gemini lags badly. Three people with direct knowledge reveal the details. The team pulls researchers and engineers from across DeepMind. Sebastian Borgeaud leads. He’s a research engineer who once headed pretraining for Gemini. The Information broke the story first. Sergey Brin jumps in personally. The co-founder tells staff to “aggressively pivot.” He pushes for speed in agentic AI—systems handling multi-step tasks like full software builds. DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu joins too. Brin sees coding gains as a path to self-improving AI. An “AI takeoff,” he calls it internally. Why now? Anthropic’s tools shine brighter. DeepMind researchers admit Claude outperforms Gemini on coding. OpenAI nips close behind. Google generates about 50% of its code with AI. Rivals hit nearly 100%. That’s a gap Brin won’t tolerate.…