Googlers have some of the best perks in Silicon Valley, but there’s one thing many of them have long been denied: access to Anthropic’s Claude.
That just changed.
The company recently made one of Anthropic’s strongest coding models available to engineers across the company through its internal development tool, according to two employees and confirmed by a spokesperson.
It’s a notable change inside Google, which has typically barred most employees from using outside coding tools such as Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, expecting them to build with Gemini instead.
There have been exceptions: teams within Google DeepMind have had access to Claude…
