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,