
The Decoder: Former Deepmind researcher thinks AlphaGo's playbook can cure AI hallucinations
Former Deepmind researcher Thore Graepel wants his startup Metis Reasoning to bring AlphaGo's search principle to general reasoning. Instead of locking knowledge inside model weights, an explicit knowledge ledger would make every conclusion checkable against evidence. So far, though, there's no working system and no benchmarks. The article Former Deepmind researcher thinks AlphaGo's playbook can cure AI hallucinations appeared first on The Decoder.
A former researcher from a major AI lab founded a company proposing a new approach to make AI systems more reliable by separating knowledge from the model itself and checking every conclusion against evidence. The method uses an external ledger and an independent verification module, inspired by how a famous game-playing AI system worked by combining a prediction network with systematic search. The approach matters because current language models fabricate answers, hide their reasoning, and lock knowledge inside their weights in ways that cannot be easily corrected or removed without retraining. The proposed system exists only as a theoretical framework with no working implementation or benchmarks yet tested.
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Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. The company says the model has four main updates: It allows for more realistic worlds, lets users update an experience in real time with a natural language prompt, can generate audio, and uses Gemini 3.8 Flash under the hood to help with its simulations. It also can create experiences that are about two minutes long, up from one minute for the previous Genie 3 model. Google is pitchi

Moonshot AI has just released Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in its K3.1 series. Kimi K3.1 Pro is a 3T-class open-weight* model with a 1-million-token context window. Moonshot team positions it against the strongest proprietary models on coding, agentic and knowledge benchmarks. For developers, it is cheaper API pricing than K3 and open weights yet not available. *open weights are expected to release in November 2026. TL;DR Size: 2.8T total, 104B active parameters (MoE), 1M-token context
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Mirendil has released Fern, its first AI model. Mirendil Fern is a from-scratch coding model with a context window of up to 10M tokens. Mirendil explains how that equals about 23 MB of code, or roughly half a million lines. That is a codebase on the scale of Megatron-LM, held in context at once. Fern 0.1 is the first version, built from Mirendil-Base after a short round of post-training. For developers, its like, you load a whole repo, a full training log or days of agent traces at once. TL;

Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan Thurairatnam. The conversation between the model and the speaker does have a mostly natural back and forth (though for some reason, the model initially mistakes the speaker for some
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