Google tethers Antigravity to enterprise controls amid AI shakeup

Google Antigravity, which came out of the DeepMind AI research group, has drifted into the orbit of Gemini Enterprise app subscriptions, putting the Chocolate Factory's agentic development platform under the influence of Google Cloud controls.

Antigravity is an agentic AI coding assistant that can be accessed through various surfaces, including a desktop app (Antigravity 2.0), a command line interface (Antigravity CLI), a software development kit (Antigravity SDK), and a full-fledged integrated development environment (Antigravity IDE).

Following the announcement of Google Antigravity in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform back in May, enterprise customers prodded Google to integrate more security, compliance, and governance controls, and to make Antigravity available through familiar development tools, said Scott Densmore, senior director of engineering at Google, and Damith Karunaratne, group project manager, in a blog post.

Hence, Antigravity is now available as an extension to other IDEs, specifically Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrain, or Zed.

According to Densmore and Karunaratne, adding Antigravity to eligible Gemini Enterprise subscriptions should make it easier for administrators to manage tool licenses, invoices, and security settings.

Gemini Enterprise's billing and cost management tools provide a way to set project-level budget caps, with user and team controls coming later this year.

There's also a token pooling mechanism so individual consumption differences don't leave purchased tokens sitting around unused.

Admins also have the option to enable overages and have broader visibility into token usage, API calls, and other developer activity.

"Administrators and IT teams can set clear boundaries around workspace access, enable full audit logging, and enforce data privacy from a single console," said Densmore and Karunaratne.

They can do so through controls that affect how the Antigravity agent behaves.

File access settings can be configured, for example, to deny access to all files outside of the agent's working folders.

Agents can be directed to always ask before executing a terminal command, to do so in a sandbox, or to always proceed.

Agents can also be granted or denied access to a web browser and limited to specific websites.

Admins get access to centralized audit logging and organizations may be reassured by Google Cloud's data privacy commitment and its accompanying Cloud Data Processing Addendum, which runs a mere 15,000 or so words.