Google DeepMind's Antigravity Platform Sees Unprecedented Demand, Prompts Capacity Expansion and Tiered Access

Google DeepMind's newly launched AI developer coding platform, Antigravity, has experienced unexpectedly high usage since its public preview release, prompting the company to rapidly expand its infrastructure. Varun Mohan, co-lead for Google Antigravity, announced that the platform is actively adding more resources to enhance user experience, while simultaneously offering increased rate limits to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. This surge highlights the immediate developer interest in Google's "agent-first" approach to software development. Antigravity, powered by the advanced Gemini 3.0 model, is designed as an agent development platform that enables AI agents to autonomously plan, execute, test, and verify complex tasks across various environments, including code editors, terminals, and web browsers. The platform is a direct outcome of Google's $2.4 billion acquisition of Windsurf's core team and technology, with Varun Mohan, former Windsurf CEO, now leading its development at Google DeepMind. The rapid adoption caught developers by surprise, as indicated by Mohan's statement. > "We never anticipated Antigravity getting so much usage in such a short period of time," Varun Mohan stated in a recent social media post. > "We are actively adding more capacity to ensure the best experience for all users. In the meantime, we are providing higher rate limits to Google AI Pro and Ultra users." This strategic move aims to manage the high demand while prioritizing premium users with enhanced access. Google's aggressive push into the AI development tools market is further underscored by the significant involvement of co-founder Sergey Brin, who has returned to actively work on AI initiatives, including Gemini and Antigravity. The platform positions Google in direct competition with established AI coding tools such as OpenAI's Codex, Anthropic's Claude Code, and Cursor, as it seeks to redefine the landscape of AI-assisted programming. Despite some early mixed user experiences regarding errors and generation speed, Antigravity's vision is to accelerate software development by fostering advanced human-agent collaboration and orchestrating complex agentic workflows. The platform's name, "Antigravity," symbolizes its ambition to remove limitations and allow imagination to be the sole constraint for developers, with continuous integration of Google's evolving suite of AI models.