Google shuts down Jules: still reworking 2.0 in May, now pivots to Antigravity

Beating AI News Flash: Google has announced that its AI coding tool Jules will be discontinued on December 31, and will become read-only after November 11. Jules focused on cloud-based asynchronous programming—after developers assign tasks, the AI can fix bugs, write tests, and submit code changes in the background.

In May of this year, the Jules team was still recruiting beta testers for version 2.0 on Reddit, stating that they were rebuilding the product from scratch and preparing to launch a new web interface, API, and CLI, and even aiming to expand from helping people write code to helping people decide what products to build.

At the time, some questioned whether Jules and Antigravity were competing internally. The team explicitly denied this, saying the two were complementary, and revealed that Jules's coding component already used Antigravity's Agent and execution framework.

But just five months later, Google decided to shut down Jules and shift its R&D experience in asynchronous background execution to Antigravity. In May of this year, Google also announced that it would move the personal version of Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI. Several parallel AI coding product lines are now converging toward Antigravity.