Google expected to court coders, consumers at I/O conference
Published on: May 19, 2026, 10:15 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
Google is also expected to dedicate time at the conference to focus on businesses, particularly software developers who have been a primary source of enterprise AI revenue. In 2025, the company hired key staff from popular AI code generation startup Windsurf in a $2.4 billion deal to bolster its efforts around coding assistant Antigravity, which competes with Anthropic’s market-leading Claude Code software development tool.
