A former Anthropic employee has raised $200 million to develop AI capable of creating AI.

According to CoinWorld, AI startup Mirendil has announced the completion of a $200 million seed funding round, valuing the company at $1 billion. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, with participation from NVIDIA. Mirendil aims to develop recursive, self-improving models capable of autonomous optimization and iteration, assisting scientists in developing specialized AI models for fields such as medicine and materials science. Founders Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta met while working at Google in 2019 and joined Anthropic together in late 2024, subsequently leaving after the release of Claude Opus 4.5 in December 2025. Mirendil currently has an office in downtown San Francisco and approximately 20 technical staff. The team plans to release models and products in the coming months to gather user feedback.