The AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers was valued at $1 billion in late June 2026, while an editor's note says a reported $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership could not be verified.
Mirendil, a San Francisco AI lab founded by former Anthropic researchers Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, emerged from stealth in late June 2026 with a $200 million seed round that valued the company at $1 billion. The financing, closed between June 24-25, 2026, was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, with NVIDIA also participating. A reported $100 million-plus Google Cloud deal tied to Mirendil's compute infrastructure should be treated cautiously: an editor's note says, "No information regarding a specific $100 million Google Cloud partnership has been found as of August 6, 2026," and states that unsupported claims were removed or flagged in the pruned version. Mirendil says it is building self-improving, self-accelerating AI systems, with research focused on biology and materials science. Neyshabur previously spent more than five years at Google DeepMind.