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Thore Graepel, a co-creator of AlphaGo, is starting a new company
Graepel left Google DeepMind this summer and is raising tens of millions from a small initial group of backers for a company called Metis Reasoning, with a larger tranche possible later at a higher valuation. It works on AI that can respond to unfamiliar problems and choose an action, aimed at robotics, science and engineering. The bet: the next leap comes not from making language models bigger but from teaching machines to reason through problems.
Sources
- Bloomberg, (bloomberg.com)
- PYMNTS, “DeepMind Alumni Draw Investors Beyond Large Language Models”, (pymnts.com)
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