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1 / 4Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic back Britain's £100 million AI biosecurity lab×

The lab

The UK government announced on October 25th a £100 million AI Biosecurity Lab to detect and monitor biological threats, part of a £165 million national initiative whose other £65 million goes to surveillance and countermeasures for dangerous pathogens.

The backers

OpenAI and Anthropic will provide up to £200 million in model credits, and Google DeepMind and London's Basecamp Research will support the research.

The ambition

AI minister Kanishka Narayan called it "a major new global institution."

The catch

No host institution has been named, and the credits are worth twice the lab's own budget.

Sources and the full story

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Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic back Britain's £100 million AI biosecurity lab

The UK government announced on October 25th a £100 million AI Biosecurity Lab to detect and monitor biological threats, part of a £165 million national initiative whose other £65 million goes to surveillance and countermeasures for dangerous pathogens. OpenAI and Anthropic will provide up to £200 million in model credits, and Google DeepMind and London's Basecamp Research will support the research. AI minister Kanishka Narayan called it "a major new global institution." No host institution has been named, and the credits are worth twice the lab's own budget. SourcesB

Sources

• BGoogle, OpenAI and Anthropic back £100m UK AI biosecurity lab (City AM)cityam.com

This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of November 1st 2026.