Ex-DeepMind researcher's Metis Reasoning bets AlphaGo-style search can fix AI hallucinations
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-27
Thore Graepel, formerly a DeepMind researcher, founded Metis Reasoning to bring AlphaGo's search principle to general reasoning as a cure for hallucinations.
- The idea: stop locking knowledge inside model weights and maintain an explicit 'knowledge ledger' so every conclusion can be checked against evidence
- Caveat: there is no working system and no benchmarks yet — the project is still at the concept stage
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