Harsh Mehta

His public biography lists past pretraining and AI research work at Anthropic and Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMindGoogle DeepMind is Google’s artificial intelligence research organization, formed in April 2023 by merging DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014, with the Brain team from Google Research, and led by CEO Demis Hassabis. It developed AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and the Gemini family of models, and Hassabis and John Jumper received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold’s protein structure prediction work.Open the full entry, including Gemini.⁠[1]

According to a16zAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry, he built the first version of Anthropic’s autoresearch platform, initially alone, and gained experience with what was needed to scale its use within the company.⁠[2]

Therna Biosciences lists him as an AI advisor and records previous roles as a senior research scientist at AnthropicAnthropicAnthropic is an artificial intelligence research and product company founded in 2021 that develops the Claude models, assistant, and tools such as Claude Code, and operates as a public benefit corporation. Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei are its co-founders, and its research covers model safety, interpretability, and steerability.Open the full entry and a researcher at Google.⁠[3]

Mirendil aims to make AI research more autonomous by training models and redesigning research workflows, with the goal of enabling more scientific and engineering teams to do frontier AI work.⁠[4]

Mirendil announced a $200 million seed round led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins; NVIDIA invested later.⁠[5]

On the same date, a16z Deep Dives published an interview featuring him about Mirendil.⁠[6]

Mirendil reported that one researcher with agents trained Mirendil-Base in 3.5 months for under $10 million in compute. Human judgment and intervention remained necessary; it was not fully autonomous recursive self-improvement.⁠[7]

Mirendil: Official link: https://mirendil.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[4]

Therna Biosciences: Official link: https://www.therna.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[3]

X: Public account: https://x.com/HarshMeh1a (opens in a new window)⁠[1]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsh-mehta-3bb0b88a/ (opens in a new window)⁠[8]

a16z interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJkx8Rp_Trk (opens in a new window)⁠[6]