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Google beefs up its UK AI business with Agentspace data residency and more


Google is doubling down on building out its AI business in the U.K., and on Monday morning in London, the CEO of Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis and Google

Both BT and WPP have inked development and data partnerships with Google Cloud and are early adopters of running pilots using its newer releases like Imagen, Veo and Gemini. The government’s dogfooding is part of a bigger strategy: its hope is that AI really will prove to be a big economic wave, and it wants to make sure the U.K. can catch it. Interestingly, the two main firms the government has named so far that it is working with are OpenAI and Anthropic, two rivals to Google in the area of generative AI services.

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