Google discreetly acquired Galileo AI, a startup based in San Francisco specializing in the generation of user interfaces from textual prompts. The operation gives birth to Stitcha new generative AI tool designed to produce UI models and code for designers, developers and entrepreneurs. An initiative which testifies to Google’s desire to invest more directly the field of design assisted by AI, with Gemini as a technical engine.
A startup born at the crossroads of AI and design
Created in 2022 by French Arnaud Bénardformer NLP researcher at Google, and Helen Zhouex-product designer at Facebook and Cruise, Galileo AI was born out of the idea that language models now generate usable interfaces, provided you resolve three major challenges, visual quality, structural consistency and technical scalability.
The duo has developed a Design System Ownertrained on thousands of variations created by hand. Unlike approaches based on Dribbble or Midjourney, Galileo focused on the production of interfaces Editable, modifiable and directly usablerather than aesthetic renderings that are difficult to use in production.
A solution adopted by designers, agencies and developers
Galileo AI claims a Automation of 60 to 70 % of the UI creation processwhile leaving designers the possibility of finalizing the screens. The use cases are varied: design agencies wishing to reduce the time of iteration with customers, front-end developers in search of visually coherent components, entrepreneurs wishing to quickly prototyper a product.
The Galileo engine is based on a interface in catcapable of interpreting ambiguous prompt and relaunching the user to obtain a more relevant result. The system generates full flows (Ex. Banking onboarding, e-commerce route) rather than isolated screens, which distinguishes it from the majority of competing solutions.
From Galileo to Stitch, integration into the Google ecosystem
With Stitch, Google now offers a solution that generates design and code from simple requests, based on the latest iterations of Gemini models. The self-service approach is preserved, but enriched with an experimental mode with a more creative model. All Galileo users have 30 days to migrate to Stitch, which remains accessible for free.
This acquisition is part of a logic of functional extension of the Gemini environment, with probable bridges to Android Studio, Firebase or Google Workspace. Stitch could thus become a Infrastructure brick for rapid interface productionintegrated into wider product development chains.
By absorbing Galileo, Google does not just buy a tool. He joined a sharp technical expertisea dataset that is difficult to replicate, and a qualified user base.
