Mirendil unveils first pretrained model, claims it took one researcher 3.5 months

An Oct. 21 post from @bneyshabur presents Mirendil-Base as Mirendil's first pretrained model and claims one researcher built it from scratch in 3.5 months. The post puts compute costs below $10 million across research, small-scale experiments and the final training run. It places the model in the 100B–500B-parameter range, while promising independent evaluations, post-training benchmarks and API access later.