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On October 20, 2026, the London-based AI company Metis Reasoning was officially established and launched, focusing on a compute-efficient reasoning approach as it seeks a direction distinct from the frontier models of Anthropic and OpenAI. According to Tech.eu, the company was co-founded by Thore Graepel, former head of research at Google DeepMind and co-creator of AlphaGo, and has a team of 12 people spanning researchers, mathematicians, robotics experts and technology entrepreneurs. The company believes that LLMs have fundamental limitations in reasoning, with results that are difficult to verify and lacking an audit trail; it says its approach is more verifiable, more robust and safer, and that it has already achieved some positive results on frontier reasoning problems at a cost far below that of frontier models. The report says its initial funding is believed to be in the tens of millions of dollars, but Metis has not yet announced a release date for its first AI model.
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Former Google DeepMind researcher founds London AI company Metis Reasoning, focusing on compute-efficient reasoning
Metis Reasoning, a London AI company co-founded by former Google DeepMind research lead and AlphaGo co-creator Thore Graepel, has officially launched, seeking a compute-efficient path distinct from the frontier models of Anthropic and OpenAI, and is believed to have raised tens of millions of dollars in initial funding. The company has a team of 12 people, including researchers, mathematicians, robotics experts, and technology entrepreneurs. It believes that LLMs have fundamental limitations in reasoning, that results are difficult to verify, and that there is a lack of audit trails; its approach is more verifiable, more robust, and safer, and it says it has already achieved some positive results on frontier reasoning problems at a cost far below that of frontier models. Metis has not yet announced a release date for its first AI model.