Google is reorganising a recently launched strike team as it seeks to catch up with Anthropic in the competition over AI coding tools.

According to a recent report by The Information, the reorganisation focuses on changes in how models are trained. Previously the process was divided into pre-training (model building) and post-training (applying it to specific uses). Google has formed a new mid-training team in between to train specialised data.

The strategy splits responsibilities to speed capability improvements. The mid-training team will handle boosting model capabilities, including coding, while the post-training team will focus on user experience.

At the same time, Google has seen a series of departures of key AI talent. Last week, well-known AI researcher Noam Shazeer (노암 샤지어) moved to OpenAI. Google had brought Shazeer, a co-author of the 2017 paper on the transformer architecture that is now the basis for generative AI, back two years ago under a $2.7 billion licensing deal. He was said to have decided to leave after the computing resources he used exclusively for AI training were merged into a shared pool with other teams.

DeepMind vice president John Jumper (존 점퍼), who won a Nobel Prize for research on protein structure prediction, then said he would move to Anthropic. Alphabet shares fell 5 percent on the 22nd, posting their biggest one-day drop in more than a year, after the two departures.

Coding is considered the most profitable area in the AI services market. Based on its dominance in the field, Anthropic’s annualised revenue as of last month was $47 billion, more than tripling from February.

The Information, citing a source, said Google had been relatively neglectful in the area on the premise that if it built a strong base model, coding ability would naturally follow.

Google has yet to release its next flagship model, Gemini 3.5 Pro. It said at its May developer conference that it would launch it in June, but The Information, citing a source involved in testing, reported that the Gemini 3.5 Pro model is also expected not to surpass Anthropic’s latest model, Mitos.