New Delhi, March 27 -- Google employees have begun using a new internal AI tool called "Agent Smith" that can automate tasks like coding, according to a report by Business Insider. The AI agent has become so popular inside the company that the tech giant had to restrict access to handle the sudden influx of employees using it.

Agent Smith is likely a reference to the popular character from the movie The Matrix, where Smith is a software agent inside the simulated world designed to monitor, control, and maintain order, and is capable of acting independently and intelligently.

Similarly, Agent Smith builds on Google's Antigravity platform and possesses the ability to interact with various internal tools. The tool operates asynchronously i...