Two decades ago, King’s Cross was central London’s most neglected district. Today, it is home to the main foreign outposts for several of the world’s wealthiest companies, from Big Tech giants Google and Meta to their richly funded AI challengers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus.
AI researchers and entrepreneurs are packing out the area’s canal-side cafés so densely that venture capitalists prowling for their next deal are struggling to prevent their coffee meetings from being overheard by rivals.
For many, this resurgence can be traced back to one individual: Sir Demis Hassabis, the DeepMind co-founder and Nobel laureate who stayed in London to build his AI lab following its sale to Google in 2014.
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