Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI
AI startup Mirendil has secured a $100 million partnership with Google Cloud to access compute resources for developing self-improving AI systems. The company aims to automate complex scientific research by creating models that iteratively enhance their own performance.
Why it matters
This deal underscores the massive capital and infrastructure requirements for frontier AI labs and the industry's push toward recursive self-improvement as a path to scientific breakthroughs.
AI lab Mirendil has signed a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to source compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
The deal mirrors two trends shaping the AI industry: cloud giants are courting startups with huge infrastructure commitments, and AI companies are snatching up as many compute deals as they can to secure access as they scale.
The deal is worth upwards of $100 million, Mirendil’s co-founder and CEO, Benham Neyshabur, told TechCrunch. That’s roughly half of what Mirendil raised in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation in late June.
The deal gives the startup access to both Google’s TPUs and Nvidia GPUs, as well as managed training clusters with which Mirendil will work on its self-improving AI. The startup hopes its AI will eventually be able to take on the work of an entire frontier AI lab.
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