Mirendil raised 1B valuation June 26, 2026. Co-led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins; NVIDIA among investors. Founded by Behnam Neyshabur (ex-Anthropic, ex-Google Gemini reasoning).
20-person team from Anthropic, xAI, DeepMind, OpenAI. Training AI models specialized in R&D tasks for autonomous research iteration. a16z describes investment as systems that autonomously conduct and iterate on AI research.
One of largest AI seed rounds ever. Product promised in coming months; no public safety framework disclosed.