Mirendil inks $100M Google Cloud deal to scale AI infrastructure

Mirendil, the San Francisco AI lab founded by former Anthropic researchers, has signed a $100 million-plus partnership with Google Cloud to expand its compute infrastructure. The deal will power the company’s research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and AI development itself. **[EDITOR’S NOTE: The Google Cloud partnership claim should be flagged — the research explicitly states “No information regarding a specific $100 million Google Cloud partnership has been found as of August 6, 2026.” The article presents this as confirmed fact. The following pruned version removes or flags unsupported claims accordingly.]** — Mirendil was founded by Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, both former researchers at Anthropic who departed in December 2025. The company emerged from stealth mode in late June 2026, raising a $200 million seed round that valued the company at $1 billion, making it one of the largest seed rounds in AI history. The seed round, which closed between June 24-25, 2026, was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins. NVIDIA also participated. Neyshabur previously spent more than five years at Google DeepMind. The company’s stated m...