Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Development
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·November 18, 2025nateb2022
I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models:
- Gemini 3 Pro (High)
- Gemini 3 Pro (Low)
- Claude Sonnet 4.5
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking)
- GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)modeless
Thank you for saying what this entire blog post doesn't. It's actually disrespectful of Google to launch this without even a mention of the fact that it is based on VSCode.
shrikant
It's so obvious from even just the vague screenshots that are hidden somewhere on the site that it's a VSCode fork, that I suppose I can see why they've tried to obfuscate that as much as possible.
koakuma-chan
Oh no, not another VSCode fork...
marstall
I don't get how these agents can work when Claude Sonnet 4.5 (for example) needs a lot of hand-holding for basic, simple bugfixing stuff. Wouldn't the agents just be huffing and puffing their way off the rails all the time?
aeternum
Product leaders that apply world-changing technology breakthrough names to their yet-another cloned SaaS product deserve more shame.
Antigravity would be a world-changing technology. This isn't.
stavros
Wait until you see Google Perpetual Motion Machine, their appointment-booking virtual assistant.
egypturnash
Did they build this site with Antigravity because it sure is broken on my iPad.
xinghai
Anyone got stuck on the "Setting Up Your Account" page ?
antimora
Why is scrolling modified on this page? I how to disable it?
phantasmish
Google likes to fuck with basic browser functionality for some reason. Scrolling, sometimes also how “click” intents through touch are triggered (that is, using js listeners for touch events instead of watching for the browser to communicate a “click” on an element; this does usability-killing shit like make a touch-to-stop-scrolling get interpreted as a click on whatever happens to be under your finger). I have no idea why they do this, but they do it a lot, so it must be a cultural thing.
And I don’t mean like some designers will highjack scroll to deliver a different experience like slide-like transitions or something (which may or may not be, differently, awful) but they’ll override it just to give you ordinary scrolling, except much worse (as on this page).
Seems like a lot of work to do just to make something shittier, but what do I know, I probably can’t implement a* on a whiteboard from memory or whatever.
meetpateltech
Put this in your browser console to force default scrolling
var css = 'body { height: auto !important; overflow: auto !important; } .smooth-scroll-wrapper { transform: none !important; position: static !important; } div[style*="position: fixed"] { position: static !important; overflow: visible !important; inset: auto !important; }';
var style = document.createElement('style');
style.innerHTML = css;
document.head.appendChild(style);
console.log("Default scroll forced.");tencentshill
They want everyone to see what the webpage looks like on their Mac.
antgonzales
Came here to say this, it's super frustrating.
nthypes
It's a shame not even mention the amazing work of VSCode.
skerit
They even packaged it for Linux.
Fraaaank
Anyone else stuck on 'setting up your account'?
om42
[delayed]
ayhanfuat
My guess is it fails if you use a workspace account. I was able to use it with my personal Google account.
Fraaaank
Hmm that does indeed seem to be the case.
kUdtiHaEX
Doesn’t work with a workspace account for me but it does work with my private account
karlkloss
Finally! Affordable antigravity!
2020: every day a new JS framework is announced
2024: every day a new Chrome fork browser is announced
2025: every day a new AI IDE vscode fork is announced