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title: "Mirendil's New Lor Platform Pretrains AI Coding Model for Less Than $10M"
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summary: "Mirendil is building a research platform called Lor that coordinates hundreds of autonomous AI agents to write software and conduct scientific experiments over multi-day cycles. The system allowed a single researcher to pretrain a new coding model from scratch in 3.5 months using less than $10 million in compute. The startup recently closed a $1B Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake."
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# Mirendil's New Lor Platform Pretrains AI Coding Model for Less Than $10M

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**Published:** 2026-11-15T11:22:55.000Z
**Category:** Agents
**Topics:** agent

## Summary

Mirendil is building a research platform called Lor that coordinates hundreds of autonomous AI agents to write software and conduct scientific experiments over multi\-day cycles\. The system allowed a single researcher to pretrain a new coding model from scratch in 3\.5 months using less than $10 million in compute\. The startup recently closed a $1B Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/ai/mirendils-new-lor-platform-pretrains-ai-coding-model-for-less-than-10m-64cbb21e>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/mirendil/status/2120925754074804403>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/bneyshabur/status/2120926172792127675>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Trace_Cohen/status/2120948621814194370>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/mark_k/status/2121923971859779986>)
- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/mirendils-new-lor-platform-pretrains-ai-coding-model-for-less-than-10m-64cbb21e>)