Former Google DeepMind top researcher launches London “compute-efficient” AI company

A London-based AI company co-founded by a former Google DeepMind research lead and AlphaGo co-creator is launching today, pursuing a “compute-efficient” alternative path to Anthropic and OpenAI’s frontier AI models in progressing AI. Thore Graepel, who left Google DeepMind this summer, is launching AI company Metis Reasoning, which is understood to be initially raising tens of millions of dollars, marking the latest AI company springing up out of London. Graepel, who is a co-creator of AlphaGo, an AI programme developed by Google DeepMind which made history by defeating human players at the Chinese board game of Go, and his co-founders have put together a 12-strong team. The team is made up of researchers, mathematicians, robotics experts and tech entrepreneurs to pursue a different approach to AI reasoning, the process whereby an AI system works through a problem, connecting information, rather than producing an answer based on learning patterns. The launch of Metis (named after the G