Mirendil Lands $100M Google Cloud Deal for AI

Mirendil has signed a multi-year deal with Google Cloud worth more than $100 million, the AI lab's co-founder and CEO Benham Neyshabur told TechCrunch. The agreement gives the startup access to Google's TPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and managed training clusters, all aimed at building what Mirendil calls self-improving AI. That's roughly half of the $1 billion valuation Mirendil landed in seed funding just this past June.

The deal fits a pattern that's become routine in AI right now: cloud providers dangling massive infrastructure commitments to lock in promising startups, while those startups race to grab as much compute as they can before they need it. Google has been especially aggressive on this front.

Mirendil's bet is on recursive self-improvement, systems that get better at their own research and development without constant human intervention. It's a concept Anthropic, where Mirendil's founders previously worked, has explored, and one that's spawned a small wave of new startups, including Recursive Superintelligence and Ricursive Intelligence. Neyshabur's team wants to build something that eventually functions like an entire frontier AI lab, automating the kind of scientific work that could speed up progress in medicine, biology, and materials science.