- Google Cloud praises UK market as striding forward with AI
- Age of the "agentic enterprise" is here now, company says
- Google Cloud announces maor partnerships with HSBC, UK government
Google Cloud has laid out its vision for the future of UK businesses enabled by AI, noting that the age of the "Agentic Enterprise" is set to nring in transformation across the board.
“London is rapidly rising and establishing itself as a significant, high-growth hub for global technological innovation,” declared Maureen Costello, Vice President UK, Ireland, Sub-Saharan Africa, Google Cloud at the company's Google Cloud Summit London 206, “this is a market that doesn't just adopt the future, we're going to build it.”
“At Google, we're incredibly proud to be at the beating heart of this British tech revolution - we are not guests in the AI ecosystem, we are deeply rooted in it.”
A "fundamental shift" for businesses
Costello hailed Google Cloud’s recent successes in the UK, noting how, "this momentum is propelling us into a fundamental shift.” This shift, she noted, comes as companies move from the AI experimentation and proof of concepts towards actually realizing true potential.
“The agentic enterprise is happening right here, right now,” she declared, highlighting how every business must now focus on three key pillars when it comes to using AI effectively - culture, responsibility, and sustainability.
This momentum includes a number of high-level partnerships and expansion across top UK firms, including HSBC, which is adopting Google Cloud AI tools and platforms for over 200 use cases across its global services.
This will cover areas such as smarter, AI-driven insights for HSBC wealth management customers, providing more proactive, tailored financial support and real-time advice to customers at every stage of the client journey in a secure way, and using generative AI and agentic AI to build a financial crime architecture that detects risk at an earlier stage, helping to prevent harm and creating a more seamless experience for customers.
“AI is becoming one of the defining technologies of our time, allowing us to create a personalised experience for each customer, delivered in real time and at scale, while keeping human judgement, decision-making, and accountability at the core,” noted Georges Elhedery, Group CEO, HSBC
“A partnership like this one with Google Cloud helps us empower our colleagues with the tools they need to be future-ready, and supports our work in building a simple, agile, faster, and more personal HSBC.”
Google DeepMind will also be widening its work with the UK government, including a new AI-powered tool which should help reduce the time it takes for councils to process householder planning applications down from eight, to four weeks in an average case.
Another tool, Extract, which was announced by the Prime Minister in 2025, is now available to all councils in England, using AI to help planning officers convert decades-old planning documents and maps, sometimes with handwritten notes, into readily useable data in minutes.
“Our planning system remains heavily reliant on cumbersome paper-based processes that consume the time of expert planning officers and cause delays on even the most routine types of application," noted Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook.
"We are dragging the system into the twenty-first century by harnessing the power of AI to streamline the planning application process, freeing up planners to make quicker and better decisions and reducing unnecessary delays."
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