Google, Replit Expand Partnership to Bring Vibe Coding to More Companies

Google Cloud and coding startup Replit are expanding their strategic partnership as the AI race heats up.

Google said in a blog post Thursday that the companies are teaming up to bring “vibe coding,” an AI-first approach to building software, to more business customers.

The partnership aims to let companies build software with Replit’s tools, work with Google’s AI models, and deploy projects on Google Cloud.

Replit, founded in 2016, has been growing quickly as developers adopt AI coding platforms. CEO and founder Amjad Masad told Business Insider earlier this year that the company projects $1 billion in revenue by the end of 2026. The company has tied its growth to rising interest in AI-assisted programming and tools that streamline early product development.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently said the approach is making software development “exciting again,” giving non-technical workers the tools to create apps, websites, and software through AI prompts, rather than traditional coding.

Masad has said that vibe coding is lowering the barrier to entrepreneurship.

“Everyone in the world has ideas,” he told the “Big Technology Podcast” earlier this year. “And people build so much domain knowledge about whatever their field of work, right? But they never were able to make it into software because they didn’t have the skill, and maybe they didn’t have the capital.”