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.
Self-improving AI, also known as recursive self-improvement, refers to AI systems that iteratively improve themselves. It’s a concept that major labs like Anthropic, where Mirendil’s co-founders hail from, have been working on. A handful of startups like Recursive Superintelligence and Ricursive Intelligence have also recently sprung up around achieving that goal.
