Google Cloud eyes enterprise distribution in $100M deal with self-improving AI builder Mirendil

Mirendil, an AI lab founded by former Anthropic researchers, has agreed to a multi-year Google Cloud partnership worth more than $100 million. 

Its CEO, Behnam Neyshabur, confirmed the partnership and stated that it was to secure the compute behind its self-improving AI.

Mirendil raised $200 million in a seed round at a $1 billion valuation in late June. It is still considered one of the largest seed rounds for an AI startup, and it was led by Andreessen Horowitz with Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia among the backers.

Neyshabur put the Google Cloud commitment at upwards of $100 million, which works out to roughly half of that seed capital going toward a single infrastructure deal.

The agreement opens access to Google’s TPUs and Nvidia GPUs. It also comes with managed training clusters.

Mirendil’s cofounder Harsh Mehta stated, “These models are really good at working with different workloads and chips, and assigning the right workloads to the right chips,” adding that the flexibility lowers cost “not just for us, but also for our customers using our systems.”

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