Thore Graepel, a co-creator of AlphaGo, is seeking to raise tens of millions of dollars for his new startup, Metis Reasoning, from a small group of backers.
Graepel's startup is working on AI that can respond to unfamiliar problems and decide what to do, with potential applications in robotics, science and engineering.
Investors are looking beyond large language models, backing researchers trying to build systems that can learn from experience, plan ahead and interact with the real world.