{"slug": "mirendil-raises-200m-to-build-self-improving-ai-platform", "title": "Mirendil Raises $200M to Build Self-Improving AI Platform", "summary": "Mirendil, a San Francisco AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, raised $200 million in a seed round at a $1 billion valuation co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with NVIDIA participation. The company aims to build a self-improving AI platform that automates machine learning research, targeting labs and organizations without in-house ML R&D teams.", "body_md": "Editorial analysis: For AI practitioners, the race to automate parts of the ML research loop is both a technical lever and a governance inflection point: wider access to automated experiment design and model iteration could accelerate specialised research but also concentrates powerful capabilities outside established lab safeguards. Reported facts: According to The Next Web and TechFundingNews, Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, raised **$200 million** in a seed round at a **$1 billion** valuation co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with participation from NVIDIA. Gizmodo reports the San Francisco startup has about **20** technical staff, job postings offering up to **$500,000**, and a stated aim to build systems that automate AI research, a concept often called recursive self-improvement. WSJ and other coverage frame the company as targeting labs, universities, and organisations that lack in-house ML R&D teams.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mirendil-raises-200m-to-build-self-improving-ai-platform", "canonical_source": "https://letsdatascience.com/news/mirendil-raises-200m-to-build-self-improving-ai-platform-c564b966", "published_at": "2026-06-29 19:10:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-29 20:56:40.483844+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "ai-research", "ai-startups", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Mirendil", "Andreessen Horowitz", "Kleiner Perkins", "NVIDIA", "Behnam Neyshabur", "Harsh Mehta", "Anthropic"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mirendil-raises-200m-to-build-self-improving-ai-platform", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mirendil-raises-200m-to-build-self-improving-ai-platform.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mirendil-raises-200m-to-build-self-improving-ai-platform.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mirendil-raises-200m-to-build-self-improving-ai-platform.jsonld"}}