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AI lab Mirendil：https://mirendil.com/ 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：https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-veterans-startup-seeks-to-help-scientists-develop-their-own-ai-09e2f3e5?eafs_enabled=false 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：https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/rsi-is-the-new-agi-and-its-just-as-hard-to-pin-down/, refers to AI systems that iteratively improve themselves. It’s a concept that major labs like Anthropic：https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement, where Mirendil’s co-founders hail from, have been working on. A handful of startups like Recursive Superintelligence：https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/recursive-superintelligence-signs-400-compute-deal-with-amazon/ and Ricursive Intelligence：https://www.ricursive.com/ have also recently sprung up around achieving that goal.
Mirendil believes this process will automate a lot of scientific and AI research, helping scientists make progress in fields like medicine, biology, and materials science.
Neyshabur thinks AI can mimic how human scientists can learn more about new domains, accumulate knowledge and expertise, and gradually improve their performance. “You can have a self-improving AI where you can point a problem at it and it keeps getting better with time,” he said.
“How can we have an AI system that keeps doing research, keeps improving its own knowledge and performance when it comes to Alzheimer’s disease?” he continued. “This technology allows us to set goals that are ambitious for AI, and the AI would keep making progress.”
Training self-improving AI, however, requires enormous amounts of computing power. The lab’s co-founder Harsh Mehta said training is increasingly about matching the right workloads to the right hardware.
“These models are really good at working with different workloads and chips, and assigning the right workloads to the right chips,” Mehta said. “[Google] provides multiple kinds of chips […] this flexibility allows us to ultimately mix and match workloads with the right kind of accelerators, and then lower the cost not just for us, but also for our customers using our systems.”
That flexibility is central to Google’s AI infrastructure pitch. Amin Vahdat, SVP and chief technologist of AI and infrastructure at Google, said in a statement that AI advancement isn’t just about chip-level performance anymore, “but how we orchestrate entire systems of intelligence and break through the physical constraints of scaling.”
Neyshabur said Mirendil’s software and systems layer help customers get more out of Google’s hardware, giving the cloud giant another potential leg up in the race against its competition. In return, Google gets a strategic partner building frontier recursive self-improving AI — technology that it can eventually shop around to enterprise customers.
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情报判断
Aioga 编辑摘要
Mirendil 与 Google Cloud 签署价值超过 1 亿美元的多年期合作协议，以获得自我改进 AI 研究所需算力，包括 Google TPU、Nvidia GPU 和托管训练集群。
背景分析
Mirendil 联合创始人来自 Anthropic。公司称，自我改进 AI 是能够迭代提升自身能力的系统，并希望借此自动化部分科学与 AI 研究，长期目标是承担整个前沿 AI 实验室的工作。
Aioga 观点
Aioga 判断，这项合作体现了 AI 初创公司通过多年期云协议锁定训练资源的趋势，也显示云服务商正以大规模基础设施承诺争取 AI 客户。相关技术目标仍属于公司愿景。
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