**[AlphaGo Team Veteran Leaves DeepMind to Start a Business: Bringing AlphaGo-Style Reasoning to Robots]** Beating AI News Flash: Google AlphaGo team veteran Thore Graepel has left Google DeepMind to start a robotics company. The focus is on bringing "AlphaGo-style reasoning" into the physical world, enabling robots to plan and act independently in uncertain environments. Graepel joined DeepMind in 2015, contributing to AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero. In 2021, he moved to Altos Labs, and in 2025, he returned to DeepMind's Post-AGI team. The name of the new company, funding details, and co-founders have not yet been disclosed. [Original Link]