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Ex-Anthropic researchers raise $200M for self-improving AI
Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, has raised $200M at a $1B valuation to build AI systems that automate AI research, challenging the big labs' monopoly on recursive self-improvement. The seed round, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with Nvidia participating, backs a platform aimed at letting organizations build their own AI models without in-house ML teams.
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Summary
Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, has raised $200M at a $1B valuation to build AI systems that automate AI research, challenging the big labs' monopoly on recursive self-improvement. The seed round, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with Nvidia participating, backs a platform aimed at letting organizations build their own AI models without in-house ML teams.
Tags
ai-research · recursive-self-improvement · seed-funding · mirendil · anthropic · venture-capital · ai-startups
Key entities
Mirendil (organization, 0.99) · Behnam Neyshabur (person, 0.98) · Harsh Mehta (person, 0.98) · Anthropic (organization, 0.98) · Andreessen Horowitz (organization, 0.97) · Kleiner Perkins (organization, 0.97) · Nvidia (organization, 0.95) · Recursive self-improvement (concept, 0.95) · Matt Bornstein (person, 0.9) · Shayan Salehian (person, 0.88) · Tara Rezaei (person, 0.87) · Google DeepMind (organization, 0.9) · OpenAI (organization, 0.88) · xAI (organization, 0.88) · Claude Opus 4.5 (technology, 0.85) · Gemini (technology, 0.82)
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analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 1 Jul 2026