Mirendil raises $1B for Lor platform where hundreds of agents run multi-day AI research
mark_k · x · 2026-11-15
- AI startup Mirendil raised $1 billion to advance the idea of AI building better AI.
- Its platform Lor runs hundreds of agents writing code and conducting experiments over multiple days.
- Per the company, one researcher working with agents pretrained a coding model from scratch in 3.5 months for under $10 million in compute.
- That model became the basis of Fern, which can itself be used in the research process — an implied self-improvement loop.
- Results are company-reported and unverified, but the direction — agents helping researchers build the next generation of AI — is clear.
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