Mirendil raised $200 million in a seed funding round. The investment values the new AI research lab at $1 billion. Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins co-led the round with participation from NVIDIA.
The company is building a platform to automate and accelerate AI research. This system enables continuous improvement in AI capabilities without direct human intervention. The technology aims to democratize access to frontier R&D for scientists and engineers.
Former researchers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI founded the startup. The initial team consists of 20 specialists from these leading AI institutions.