Google names new frontier lab Mirendil among companies pretraining on latest TPUs
vjkaruna · x · 2026-10-29
Google Cloud's Thomas Kurian revealed that beyond Anthropic (directly and via Broadcom) and public customers like Apple scaling pretraining on the latest TPU generations, Google is also working with new frontier model companies including Mirendil and Physical Intelligence.
This is a notable official mention of Mirendil, a previously low-profile frontier lab, shedding light on Google's expanding TPU customer base among frontier labs.
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