Google partners with Replit, in vibe-coding push

Google Cloud on Thursday announced a multi-year partnership with AI coding startup Replit, giving the search giant new firepower against coding products from rivals including Anthropic and Cursor.

Under the partnership, Replit will expand the use of Google Cloud services, add more Google models to its platform, and support AI coding use cases for enterprise customers.

Google will continue to be Replit’s primary cloud provider.

“Our goal, and Google’s goal, is to make enterprise jitter coding a thing,” said Replit founder and CEO Amjad Masad. “We want to show the world that these tools will actually transform businesses and the way people work. Instead of people working in silos, designers just design, product managers just write… now everyone in the company can be an entrepreneur.”

Founded nearly a decade ago, Replit is a leader in the rapidly growing field of AI vibration coding.

In September, the startup closed a $250 million investment funding round It nearly tripled its valuation to $3 billion and said it increased its annual revenue from $2.8 million to $150 million in less than a year.

And new data RampReplit, a fintech company that also tracks corporate spending on its platform, found that it had the fastest new customer growth among software vendors. Meanwhile, Google is adding new customers and spending faster than other companies on the Ramp platform.

Put these together and you get a clearer picture of why both companies see opportunity.

Vibe-coding emerged as a phenomenon earlier this year after AI models became more adept at generating code using only natural language commands, allowing users with little experience in programming to use AI to create functioning code and potentially full applications.

Anthropic announced Tuesday that its product, Claude Code, has reached $1 billion in run rate revenue. While coding startup Cursor closed a $29.3 billion funding round in November, it also announced that its annual revenue had reached $1 billion.

By touting itself as an easy-to-use product for non-developers, Replit can help drive Google Cloud adoption among organizations and expand the scope of AI work beyond traditional engineers.

Google continues the momentum of its top-rated new model, Gemini 3. Alphabet’s shares are up more than 12% since its launch.