Lukas Münzel

founding team @mirendil | very AGI pilled for a european | math @ETH

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

Huge personal update: I moved 5800 miles away from home to join @mirendil

We're building towards what I think is the most exciting and impactful use of the models: accelerating scientific research.

A wonderfully bright future lies ahead if we get this right :)

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@rosenthalzach1 interesting, I had not heard this take before. thank you for posting!

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@StevenyzZhang Congratulations :))

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@DeltaInstitutes Thank you! :)

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

Huge personal update: I moved 5800 miles away from home to join @mirendil

We're building towards what I think is the most exciting and impactful use of the models: accelerating scientific research.

A wonderfully bright future lies ahead if we get this right :)

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@_marleyx @huntercoledavis @nevadasanchez @JeanProvost @AdamMarblestone @eboyden3 @DavidSHolz @akilian @marannelson @JCBtaiche10 This is really incredibly cool, congrats!!

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@dzyan01 @mirendil thank you david :))

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@FlavioRump thank you :)

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@PreetumNakkiran 🫶

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@nikishin_evg Thank you!! :)

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@vwxyzjn @mirendil thank you Costa!! :)

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@a16z @mirendil very excited to be part of this :))

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@houjun_liu bahahah, thank you

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@HarshMeh1a @mirendil :))

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@ZBalapanov @mirendil thanks ;))

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@saltwatersoph @mirendil thank you :)

[Devvrit @Devvrit_Khatri]

Science should not be bottlenecked by access to frontier AI.
Mirendil is building systems to bridge that gap - making AI R&D faster, autonomous, and easier to adapt to the hardest scientific problems.
A lot more becomes possible when more people can build near the frontier :)

[a16z @a16z]

We're thrilled to lead Mirendil's $200M seed round.

Frontier AI work has been locked inside a few big labs.

@mirendil is building a system that can help anyone do AI work: they train frontier models that are expert at AI R&D and build the product around it. The result is a system that loops over research and engineering problems on its own, making progress without human intervention.

It's like a coding agent built for AI research that controls its own GPUs.

Mirendil is one of the few teams with the experience and the priors to make the end-to-end system work. @bneyshabur, @HarshMeh1a, @shayan_, and @tararezaeikh come out of Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI.

Welcome to the a16z family, Mirendil.

By @BornsteinMatt and @MaikaThoughts

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@pmarca Excited to be part of this :)

[Lukas Münzel @lukasmunzel]

@bneyshabur @mirendil @a16z @kleinerperkins Very excited to be part of this :))

[Behnam Neyshabur @bneyshabur]

Today, I’m excited to formally announce @mirendil with my amazing co-founders Harsh Mehta, Shayan Salehian, and Tara Rezaei!

We’re fortunate to work with @a16z and @kleinerperkins, who led our seed round of $200M, followed by a major investment from NVIDIA, among others.

Mirendil exists to accelerate science and technology, and through them, to help solve humanity's most pressing problems.

Self-accelerating AI R&D is the most direct path to delivering on AI's broader promise, which is why we believe the most important application of AI is AI itself. Get this loop right, and it compounds. It fundamentally changes the rate of progress itself across all domains.

We believe this capability should be democratized. It should be used to power all scientific efforts trying to innovate at the frontier. There are far more important problems—and broader ones—than any single lab can take on, so more groups should be able to pursue them.

This pulls concentration of power away from a few labs: businesses and science labs can own their AI and infrastructure, keep their margins, and control their own destiny instead of ceding it all to a single AI lab.

We’re a small team with a singular focus. Our founding team consists of 20 researchers and engineers from frontier institutions including Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI, united by a passion for science and a drive to build the technologies that move it faster. If you want to build the system that builds systems, join us!

@HarshMeh1a, @shayan_, @tararezaeikh