Ex-DeepMind researcher raising funds for AI reasoning startup

Thore Graepel, a co-creator of AlphaGo and former Google DeepMind researcher, is raising funds for a new AI reasoning startup. He is the latest prominent researcher to leave DeepMind and seek significant funding.

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