Mirendil Claims Pretraining-at-Scale Milestone 4 Months After Launch, Chasing Recursive Self-Improvement
TheAndiPenguin · x · 2026-10-22
Behnam Neyshabur announced a milestone for Mirendil, less than four months after the company's formal launch: "pretraining at scale without a pretraining team." Mirendil's stated mission is to solve Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) and use it to democratize frontier AI development and accelerate science and technology. Details remain sparse in the announcement.
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