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Published: 2026-10-21T16:40:14.985921+00:00
Updated: 2026-10-21T16:40:14.985921+00:00

Mirendil reports one researcher pretrained Mirendil-Base in 3.5 months for under $10m in compute, with agents writing over 99% of code; the company says post-training has begun, not autonomous self-improvement.

Source: Mirendil — https://mirendil.com/news/pretraining-at-scale-without-a-pretraining-team/
Source date: 2026-10-21