Google Antigravity 2026: Agent-First IDE Buyer's Guide
Google Antigravity is Google's agent-first IDE, shipped November 2025 with Gemini 3. Here's what it does, who it's for, and whether it's worth switching in...
Chapter 1: Why Google Built Antigravity: The Agent-First IDE Land Grab of 2026 Google did not build Antigravity because it wanted a code editor. Google already had one, sort of — Project IDX, then Firebase Studio, a browser-based VS Code fork that landed with a shrug. Antigravity exists because between roughly 2023 and late 2025, a category Google assumed it owned quietly moved somewhere else: the place where developers actually spend their model tokens. That place stopped being a chat window and became an IDE with an agent living inside it. Google shipped Antigravity in November 2025 alongside Gemini 3...