AI Models & Platforms for UK Business

A governance-led comparison across all nine platforms, organised around data sensitivity, existing technology stack and regulatory exposure.

A managed gateway to Claude, Llama and other models inside AWS infrastructure your organisation may already trust.

OpenAI's assistant, often already in informal use across an organisation before any governance exists around it.

Anthropic's assistant, available through Claude.ai, Team and Enterprise accounts, and the Claude API.

Generative AI built into Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Meet for Google Workspace customers.

The one platform in this series that ships with its own governance product, watsonx.governance.

For organisations that cannot send data to any external API, run on infrastructure you control.

AI built directly into the Microsoft 365 tools employees already use, and their existing permissions.

The compute and software stack underneath a self-hosted deployment, not a chat assistant itself.

A research and search assistant with live web access and citations, not a general chat platform.