# Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI research

> Mirendil, a young AI research startup founded by former Anthropic scientists Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, has signed a multiyear cloud deal with Google worth more than $100 million. The agreement gives it access to Google's TPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and managed training infrastructure, and it is sizable in context: roughly half the value of the $200 million seed round Mirendil raised in June at a $1 billion valuation. The company's ambition is the kind that requires that much compute. It is trying to build AI that autonomously improves itself and then turns that capability loose on hard scientific problems in medicine, biology, and materials science. Locking in a large infrastructure commitment early is both a practical necessity and a signal to the market that Mirendil intends to train at frontier scale. It also underscores how cloud providers are becoming kingmakers in AI, since securing guaranteed compute can matter as much as securing capital. For a company only months old, a nine-figure deal with Google is a heavy vote of confidence and a heavy bet to live up to.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Friday, August 7, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Mirendil, a young AI research startup founded by former Anthropic scientists Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, has signed a multiyear cloud deal with Google worth more than $100 million. The agreement gives it access to Google's TPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and managed training infrastructure, and it is sizable in context: roughly half the value of the $200 million seed round Mirendil raised in June at a $1 billion valuation. The company's ambition is the kind that requires that much compute. It is trying to build AI that autonomously improves itself and then turns that capability loose on hard scientific problems in medicine, biology, and materials science. Locking in a large infrastructure commitment early is both a practical necessity and a signal to the market that Mirendil intends to train at frontier scale. It also underscores how cloud providers are becoming kingmakers in AI, since securing guaranteed compute can matter as much as securing capital. For a company only months old, a nine-figure deal with Google is a heavy vote of confidence and a heavy bet to live up to.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/exclusive-mirendil-inks-100m-google-cloud-deal-to-scale-self-improving-ai/)

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