One researcher pretrains a frontier-class model in 3.5 months for under $10M at Mirendil
vjkaruna · x · 2026-10-22
Mirendil, founded less than 4 months ago to pursue Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI), announced a milestone in pretraining at scale without a pretraining team.
- One researcher, 3.5 months, and under $10M — beating DeepSeek-V4 and GLM-5.3 on code, with bigger runs already passing Kimi-K3
- Frontier labs typically spend billions and hire hundreds of people to pretrain
- The company frames itself as an intelligent entity that self-improves, measuring acceleration by reduced human experts, compute, and cost needed for ambitious goals
- Investor Mamoon Hamid: when the bottleneck shifts from team size to judgment, the AI map gets redrawn
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