By Demis Hassabis
Publication Date: 2026-03-12 00:00:00
The UK is a center of exceptional technological innovation with incredible talent and world-class institutions. Later this year, Google will build on this legacy by building our landmark King’s Cross building in London next to a historic European railway junction.
Today we reveal the name of the building, Platform 37, and plans for The AI Exchange, a new public space dedicated to deepening the understanding of artificial intelligence.
Platform 37: A hub for AI innovation
The name is a reference to the building’s location next to King’s Cross train station and to “Move 37”, a crucial move by the DeepMind AI system AlphaGo in a now legendary 2016 game against Go world champion Lee Sae Dol. Go is incredibly complex, with more possible board configurations than the number of atoms in the known universe, and has long been a proving ground for AI research. “Move 37” was so unconventional that human experts initially thought it was a mistake. But as the game progressed…