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Thore Graepel Leaves DeepMind: AlphaGo Co-Creator Bets Structured Search Over LLM Scaling

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Thore Graepel, co-creator of AlphaGo, has left Google DeepMind to found an AI reasoning startup betting that structured search and learned world models -- the explicit planning architecture he co-invented -- can take AI from board games to physical robotics, as DeepMind faces its deepest talent exodus on record.

First report: Exclusive: DeepMind veteran Thore Graepel quits to pursue AI reasoning venture — sifted.eu, 8d