DeepMind Veteran Thore Graepel Departs to Tackle AI Reasoning

AlphaGo veteran Thore Graepel is leaving Google DeepMind after seven years, saying LLMs cannot truly reason and that he declined offers from other frontier labs over concerns about their concentration of power.

2026-09-07 ~ 2026-09-09 · 3 related posts

• DeepMind vet Thore Graepel departs to tackle reasoning, cites AlphaGo lessons — ThoreG · 2026-09-07
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• Researcher quits DeepMind after 7 years over AI labs' power concentration — schwarzjn_ · 2026-09-09