Thore Graepel
Researcher · Founder
Now Chair of Machine Learning, University College London; Founder, Metis Reasoning
Latest on AI4S.fyiTimeline · Oct 20Thore Graepel's Metis Reasoning launches with four founders, a 12-person team and a white paperAccount linked from thoregraepel.github.io · Avatar from their X account, taken 2026-09-28
Affiliations
Current
- Chair of Machine Learning · University College London
- Founder · Metis Reasoning
Also named in the companies' announcements: Google DeepMind, DeepMind
Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.
About
Thore Graepel, who trained as a physicist and earned a PhD in machine learning in Berlin in 2001, holds the Chair of Machine Learning at UCL. He worked at Microsoft Research from 2003 (TrueSkill, AdPredictor), at DeepMind from 2015 to 2021 on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and multi-agent learning, then led machine learning for cellular rejuvenation at Altos Labs and joined Google DeepMind's Post-AGI team. Bloomberg reported, as relayed by PYMNTS, that after leaving Alphabet in 2026 he was in early talks to raise money for a new startup, Metis Reasoning.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: thoregraepel.github.io ↗ · pymnts.com ↗
Founded
Metis ReasoningScience models and AI scientists · 1 round on record · Round (unnamed) tens of millions of dollarsBackground: DeepMind (AlphaGo), Altos Labs, Google DeepMind Post-AGI team (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Piers Ingram, Michael Warren, David Berman
On the timeline
Commentary by them
- 2026-10-20The Age of Reasoning
- 2026-10-02Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
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