Google Antigravity’s remote agents keep coding in the cloud after you close the laptop

Google’s coding agent no longer needs your laptop to stay awake. The latest Antigravity release adds remote agents that run a task in the cloud, so the work carries on after the lid is closed and can be checked from a phone.

Google pitches it with a coffee break: start a job, walk away, approve any permission request from your phone, and come back to passing tests and a ready pull request. Each task gets its own virtual machine in the cloud. According to 9to5Google, a remote project starts from a GitHub repository or a Google Drive folder, and runs can be followed at antigravity.google.com/remote.

The catch is the price tag. Remote agents are reaching Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers first, which Google describes as all of its paid consumer plans, and the rollout is gradual.

Version 2.29 of the desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux brings a voice mode too. It runs on Gemini Live, starts from a button in an empty message box and hands spoken requests to the agent; 9to5Google says the voice speed can be set from 0.75x to 2x. The new-conversation page now greets you at the top with the message box pinned to the bottom, and the Onyx theme with the Google Sans font becomes the default for anyone who has not picked their own.

The rest of the update is housekeeping, but there is a lot of it: 22 improvements and 13 fixes, including a reorganised Automations page, a built-in viewer for Jupyter notebooks, download and history support in the built-in browser, custom keyboard shortcuts and a faster cold start.

Voice mode and remote agents are switching on account by account, so some users will not see either yet.

Reported by Google Antigravity, Google Antigravity on X, 9to5Google. Compiled with AI tools.