Behnam Neyshabur
Researcher · Founder
Now Founder, Mirendil
Latest on AI4S.fyiFunding · Sep 22 · founderMirendil · Round (unnamed) · up to $1B (in talks)Account linked from neyshabur.net · Avatar from their X account, taken 2026-09-28
Affiliations
About
Behnam Neyshabur is co-founder and CEO of Mirendil, which builds AI systems for AI research and development. At Anthropic he co-led the Discovery team, working toward an AI scientist; before that, from 2019, he was a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google, co-leading the Blueshift team on reasoning in Gemini. He earned his PhD in computer science at TTI-Chicago and did postdoctoral research at NYU and the Institute for Advanced Study.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: neyshabur.net ↗ · techfundingnews.com ↗
Selected work
- Exploring Generalization in Deep Learning ↗
Examines which measures of model capacity can explain generalization in deep networks.
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Founded
MirendilScience models and AI scientists · 2026 · 2 rounds on record · disclosed $200M · Round (unnamed) up to $1BBackground: Google (co-led Gemini reasoning research), Anthropic (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Harsh Mehta
Backed byKleiner PerkinsAndreessen Horowitz
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