Google shuts down Jules: The project was still being reworked into its 2.0 version in May, and has now pivoted to Antigravity.

Beating AI News Flash: Google announced that its AI coding tool Jules will be shut down on December 31, and switch to read-only mode starting November 11. Jules focused on cloud-based asynchronous programming: after developers assign tasks, the AI would fix bugs, write tests in the background, and submit code changes. In May this year, the Jules team recruited beta testers for Jules 2.0 on Reddit, stating they were rebuilding the product from scratch, planning to launch a new web interface, API, and CLI, and even expanding its scope from assisting with coding to helping users decide what products to build. At that time, some questioned whether Jules and Antigravity were in internal competition. The team firmly denied this, noting the two tools were complementary, and also revealed that Jules’s programming components originally used Antigravity’s Agent and execution framework. However, just five months later, Google decided to shut down Jules, redirecting its asynchronous background execution R&D experience to Antigravity. In May this year, Google also announced it would shift its personal Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI. Multiple parallel AI coding product lines are now converging toward Antigravity.