Researcher · Founder · Executive

Behnam Neyshabur

Co-founder and CEO at Mirendil

Neyshabur made influential contributions to explaining why very large neural networks can perform well on new data rather than simply memorize their training examples. He later co-led reasoning work behind Minerva and Gemini, co-led Anthropic's Discovery team, and founded Mirendil.

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Background

Current role

Co-founder and CEO 2026-present

Previously

2024-2025Member of Technical Staff & Team Lead,

2019-2024Senior Staff Research Scientist & Gemini Team Lead,

Google DeepMind

2018-2019Postdoctoral Associate,

New York University

Education

Sharif University of Technology Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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org_addedMirendil launches with $200M seed round

Mirendil formally announced its 20-person AI R&D team and a $200M seed round led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins, with NVIDIA also investing.

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