Google's Internal AI Agent Smith Faces Access Restrictions Due to Popularity

According to monitoring by 1M AI News, Google employees are using an internal AI agent named Agent Smith, which can automatically complete programming and other tasks. Due to a surge in users, access to the tool has been restricted. The name likely pays homage to the antagonist Agent Smith from ‘The Matrix.’ Agent Smith is built on Google’s existing AI programming platform Antigravity and can call upon various internal systems; it was launched earlier this year. Compared to previous AI coding assistants, Agent Smith can more autonomously plan and execute complete workflows and supports asynchronous operation, allowing it to perform tasks independently in the background. Employees do not need to continuously operate their computers; they can check progress and issue commands via their mobile phones, and it can also be used directly from Google’s internal chat platform. With access to employee data systems, Agent Smith can automatically retrieve relevant documents, eliminating the need for manual searches. Google co-founder Sergey Brin mentioned at an all-hands meeting for the sales department in early March that AI agents will become a significant focus for Google this year and hinted that the company is developing a tool similar to OpenClaw (it is unclear if this is Agent Smith). Google’s business head Philipp Schindler joked at the meeting that he can tell when Brin’s messages are sent by the agent. Google is accelerating the internal adoption of AI tools. Some employees have been informed that AI usage will be included in performance evaluations. The infrastructure department is also advancing an internal project called Project EAT, aimed at improving the adoption rate and standardization of AI tools. A Google spokesperson responded, “We are continually exploring new ways to build agents that can solve real-world problems, but there is currently no further information to share.”