Mirendil signs $100M-plus Google Cloud deal to automate AI research
The multiyear contract is worth at least half Mirendil's seed financing, although the frontier AI lab has yet to release a public product, benchmark or customer deployment.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: TechCrunch
Why it matters
Mirendil is making a cloud commitment worth at least half its $200 million seed financing before releasing a model, benchmark or commercial product. The agreement shows how much infrastructure automated AI research can require and how early cloud providers are competing for newly funded labs.
Mirendil co-founders Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta have signed a multiyear Google Cloud agreement worth more than $100 million, giving the young frontier AI lab access to TPUs, NVIDIA GPUs and managed training clusters for its effort to automate AI research.…
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