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. On Monday morning in London, the CEO of Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian appeared alongside customers BT and WPP to spell out some of its plans. The company said it would expand UK data residency to include Agentspace so that AI agents for enterprises built on Google infrastructure can be hosted locally — a key detail for organizations that are wary of hosting data outside of their own purview. Alongside this, Google is introducing more financial incentives for AI startups to work with Google awarding those joining its new UK accelerator up to £280,000 in Google Cloud credits; plus expanded AI skills training. Additionally, Google used the event at its DeepMind offices to announce that Chirp 3, the company’s audio generation model that was developed there, would be added to its Vertex AI developer platform. You can read more about that here. “Agentic” has become the code-word for ho ... Read full article.