Google DeepMind deepens collaboration with the UK government to support prosperity and security in the AI era

Google DeepMind announced a deepened collaboration with the UK government, expanding access to frontier AI in science, education, and public services, and advancing national security and resilience. According to the announcement, DeepMind will provide UK scientists with priority access to AI for Science models such as AlphaEvolve, AlphaGenome, AI co-scientist, and WeatherNext, and will establish its first automated laboratory in the UK in 2026, focused on materials science research and integrated with Gemini. On security, the company will conduct research with the UK AI Security Institute on interpretability, alignment, and societal impact, and will explore using Big Sleep and CodeMender to identify vulnerabilities and automatically fix code. The UK government's i.AI team is piloting Extract, reducing the conversion time for a single planning document from up to 2 hours to 40 seconds.